Lyne / Shrank The Complete Poems of Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-48137-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 798 Seiten

Reihe: Longman Annotated English Poets

This is the definitive scholarly edition of Shakespeare's poems and sonnets. It provides an introduction to the place of Shakespeare’s poems within his career and aims to situate his body of work in context. The commentary on the poems is wide-ranging in points of reference and methodology, and creates an argument alongside a reading of the poems. The book includes boxes of information on important relevant topics, such as introductions to key sources, biographies of key figures and general discussions of form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyne, Raphael

Shrank, Cathy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction. Abbreviations. Chronology of Shakespeare’s life, works and sixteenth-/seventeenth-century events. VENUS AND ADONIS. Facsimile of 1593 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. RAPE OF LUCRECE. Facsimile of 1594 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM. Facsimile of 1599 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. LET THE BIRD OF LOUDEST LAY. Facsimile of 1604 title page to Diuerse Poetical Essaies. Introduction. Textual introduction. Text. SONNETS. Facsimile of 1609 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. A LOVER’S COMPLAINT. Introduction. Textual introduction. POEMS POSTHUMOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKESPEARE. Introduction (textual information to be given in footnotes). Text of ‘Shall I die?’ An extemporary epitaph on John Combe’. ‘Another epitaph on John Combe’. ‘Upon the king’. ‘Upon a pair of gloves’. ‘An epitaph on Elias James’. ‘Verses upon the Stanley tomb at Tong (East End)’. ‘Verses upon the Stanley tomb at Tong (West End)’. ‘On Ben Jonson’. ‘Epitaph on himself’. Appendix Poems from Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the former Subiect; viz. the Turtle and Phoenix. Bibliography of references cited. Index of titles and first lines.

Über Autor(innen)

Raphael Lyne is based in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Cathy Shrank is Professor of Tudor & Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.