the oxford shakespeare the complete works

The Sonnets are freshly interpreted, not as cryptic fragments of autobiography, but as works which ask their readers to think about relationships between lyric poems and the historical circumstances which may have given rise to them.

An extensive and lively introduction explores Shakespeare's poetic development, and shows how the poems relate to each other and to his dramatic works. The volume contains the complete Sonnets and poems with a full commentary. This new edition explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it needs to be changed. Yet despite the power of Shakespeare's poems, and their foundational place within his oeuvre, modern readers have seldom been encouraged to engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. That poem was so popular that most of Shakespeare's contemporaries thought of him as primarily a poet, rather than a playwright. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written.

This book was released on with total page 760 pages. Book Synopsis The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems by : William Shakespeareĭownload or read book The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford.

The oxford shakespeare the complete works