Shakespeare's Poems (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

by William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, H. R. Woudhuysen

Overview

In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet Master Shakespeare', Elizabethan England's most brilliant non-dramatic poet. Shorter poems in this volume testify further to Shakespeare's versatility and to his poetic fame. Some, like the much-debated ‘Phoenix and Turtle', pose problems of meaning; others raise questions about authorship and authenticity. Detailed annotation and a full Introduction seek to resolve such difficulties while also locating Shakespeare's poems in their literary context, which includes his own career as a playwright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903436875
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/28/2007
Series:	Arden Shakespeare Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	616
Sales rank:	677,368
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.35(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.

Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Editorial Reviews

Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen are winning advocates for the poems’ verbal attractiveness, formal sophistication, and intellectual dexterity.” - The New Criterion

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