Shakespeare's Sonnets by Shakespeare, William (9780300085068)

Shakespeare's Sonnets

by Shakespeare, William , Booth, Stephen

Paperback - English

This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that Renaissance readers brought to the works.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0300085060

EAN

9780300085068

Publisher

YALE UNIV PR

Publication Date

11 Jul 2000

Pages

608

Weight (kg)

0.48

Dimensions (cm)

19.6 x 12.7 x 4.3

About Author

William Shakespeare was born on April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children their older daughter, Susanna, and the twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare s only son, died in childhood.<BR><BR>The bulk of Shakespeare s working life was spent, not in Stratford, but in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He had a successful career in London as a playwright and actor and was a shareholder in the acting company the Lord Chamberlain