Sonnets and a Lovers Complaint (Clothbound Classics) HB
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...
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012