The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint : Clothbound Classics   - William Shakespeare

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

Clothbound Classics

By: William Shakespeare

Hardcover | 28 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play.

When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint," a beautiful poem in rhyme-royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the "secret" of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating Introduction to the volume as a whole, together with 258 pages of commentaries on the poems, a textual history, and suggestions for further reading.

Edited with an Introduction by John Kerrigan.

About the Author

Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He completed over thirty plays, a collection of sonnets, and five narrative poems.

John Kerrigan is Lecturer in English at St. John's College, Cambridge University.

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