The Complete Poems of Shakespeare (Longman Annotated English Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415737079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 752 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cathy Shrank is Professor of Tudor & Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.Raphael Lyne is based in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
With all these scholarly resources supporting a newly edited, modern-spelling text, this edition combines accessibility with layers of rich information to inform the most sophisticated reading.. In headnotes and extensive annotations to the texts, Cathy Shrank and Raphael Lyne elucidate historical contexts, publication histories, and above all the literary and linguistic features of poems whose subtleties always reward careful attention.Substantial appendices trace the sources for Shakespeare’s narrative poems and the controversial text The Passionate Pilgrim, as well as providing information about poems posthumously attributed to him, and the English sonnet sequence. This edition of his poetry provides detailed notes, commentary and appendices resulting in an academically thorough and equally accessible edition to Shakespeare’s poetry.The editors present his non-dramatic poems in the chronological order of their print publication: the narrative poems Venus a
About the AuthorCathy Shrank is Professor of Tudor & Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.Raphael Lyne is based in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.