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Katherine Duncan-Jones provides insightful commentary on the sonnets, addressing controversies and themes of sexuality to engage both today's readers and students effectively. Updated with new scholarship and critical perspectives since its first release in 1997, this edition remains a definitive collection within the Arden Shakespeare series.
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This edition is ideal for students, scholars, and general readers with an interest in Shakespeare, poetry, and cultural history who seek both authoritative text and insightful commentary on the sonnets.
A revised edition of this acclaimed and best-selling edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, published in the year of their 400th anniversary. Updated throughout to take account of recent scholarship since its first publication in 1997.
A thoroughly revised edition of a best-selling Arden title, marking the 400th anniversary of the Sonnet's original publication A wonderful and original introduction explores the issues of sexuality, authorship and publication surrounding the Sonnets Edited and annotated to the rigourous scholarly standards of all Arden editions With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, this is the finest edition of the Sonnets available
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Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are.
The only edition of the sonnets published in Shakespeare's lifetime was published in 1609, and this revised edition is published to mark their 400th anniversary. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets has been a consistent best-seller in the Arden Shakespeare series.
Katherine Duncan-Jones tackles the controversies and mysteries surrounding these beautiful poems head on, and explores the issues of sexuality to be found in them, making this a truly modern edition for today's readers and students.
This revised edition has been updated and corrected in light of new scholarship and critical thinking since its first publication.
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781408017975
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 May 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thomson Learning
Edition: Revised edition
Illustration: 20 in the Introduction
Contributors:
- Edited by Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 536g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
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