Sonnets

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. In a series of focused readings he probes the sonnets' sexual and temperamental ambiguity as well as their complex textual history, and explores the difficulties editors face when modernising the spelling, punctuation and layout of the 1609 quarto. Orgel reminds us that the order in which the sonnets were composed bears no relation to the order in which they appear in the quarto and he warns against reading them biographically. This edition retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his notes and commentary.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• List of abbreviations and conventions
• Introduction Stephen Orgel
• Note on the text
• The Sonnets
• The commentary
• Textual analysis
• Appendix: manuscript copies of the Sonnets
• Reading list
• Index of first lines

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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction Dedication   The Sonnets   Index of First Lines THE PELICAN SHAKESPEARE GENERAL EDITORS STEPHEN ORGEL A. R. BRAUNMULLER The Sonnets 135 WHo ever hath her wifh, thou haft thy will, And Will too boote,and Will in oucr-plus, More then enough am i that vexe thee ftill, To thv sweet will making addition thus. Wilt thou whofe will is large and spatious, Not once vouchfafe to hide my will in thine, Shall will in others feeme right gracious, And in my will no faire acceptance shine: The sea all water, yet receiues raine still, And in aboundance addeth to his store, So thou beeing rich in Will adde to thy Will, One will ofrcine to make thy large Will more. Let no vakinde, no faire beseechers kill, Thinke all but one, and me in that one Will. The playfully autobiographical (and wittily obscene) Sonnet 135 in its original form in the 1609 quarto, a good example of the ambiguities of early modern typography. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England The Sonnets edited by Douglas Bush published in the United States of America in Penguin Books 1961 Revised edition published 1970 This new edition edited by Stephen Orgel with an Introduction by John Hollander published 2001 Copyright © Penguin Books Inc., 1961, 1970 Copyright © Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001 All rights reserved LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The sonnets / William Shakespeare ; edited by Stephen Orgel ; with an introduction by John Hollander. p. cm. - (The Pelican Shakespeare) eISBN : 978-0-140-71453-1 Excerpted from The Sonnets by William Shakespeare All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Library Journal Review

Shakespeare is again the hottest ticket in town: he has been voted the person of the millennium in Great Britain, while an Oscar-nominated film about his love life is burning up box offices. Along with being the world's greatest playwright, his unparalleled genius for rhyme and meter make him also one of the greatest poets, evidenced by the 154 sonnets he penned throughout his life. This beautiful hardcover offers them all, with illustrations and an index of first lines. A real top-shelf edition. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.