All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

De: William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson - editor, Stanley Wells - editor

Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti

Duración: 4 h y 35 m

Resumen del Editor

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture.

This groundbreaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. This volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.

Public Domain (P)2021 Cambridge University Press

love it, love it, love it.

Love all the background and Kenny's performance is to die for. Will be listening to this on repeat.

Sonnet 151

Maybe it's me? But I couldn't find Sonnet 151 in the wonderful Audible recording. Anyone else?

A Great Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets

I really haven't read Shakespeare's sonnets in any consistent way since high school (where I read less than twenty and memorized two). It was fascinating to read all 154 from first to last as a whole connected work. One really gets a sense that English is a tool which almost all of us use, many often play with, but only Shakespeare fully owned. The Bard could bend a word, fit infinity in a couplet, and drop the whole universe on a period.

This Stanley Wells, Cambridge edition is different than most collected Sonnets of Shakespeare because it 1) includes all the sonnets (including the ones from the plays, whether foreshortened or extended), 2) places them in chronological order (as best as they could figure), and 3) then does a short analysis of each one. It felt a bit like reading Robert Alter's The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary with its commentary and academic heft that still lands well with interested amateurs.

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