The Secret Architecture Of Shakespeares Sonnets

Author : Steven Monte
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474481489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Steven Monte and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries. The fundamental reason why his schemes have gone unnoticed is historical: within decades of his death, conventions of sonnet sequences became unfamiliar, and they have largely remained so since. Weaving together ideas of the Sonnets as a free-standing sequence and as a sonnet sequence among other poets' complex sequences, we discover new insights into Shakespeare's career as a poet.

Author : Eugene Patrick Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Eugene Patrick Wright and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Gerald Massey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088603
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect. The commentaries—presented alongside the original and modernized texts—offer fresh perspectives on the individual poems, and, taken together, provide a full picture of Shakespeare’s techniques as a working poet. With the help of Vendler’s acute eye, we gain an appreciation of “Shakespeare’s elated variety of invention, his ironic capacity, his astonishing refinement of technique, and, above all, the reach of his skeptical imaginative intent.”

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674637115
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect. The commentaries - presented alongside the complete text of each poem, as printed in the 1609 edition and in a modernized version - offer fresh perspectives on the individual poems, and, taken together, provide a full picture of Shakespeare's techniques as a working poet. With the help of Vendler's acute eye, we gain an appreciation of "Shakespeare's elated variety of invention, his ironic capacity, his astonishing refinement of technique, and, above all, the reach of his skeptical imaginative intent." Vendler's understanding of the sonnets informs her readings on an accompanying compact disk, which is bound with the book. This recorded presentation of a selection of the poems, in giving aural form to Shakespeare's words, heightens our awareness of voice in lyric and adds the dimension of sound to poems too often registered merely as written words.

Author : Jesse Johnson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems written by Jesse Johnson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the speculation on the real identity of William Shakespeare and the authorship of poems that are traditionally attributed to him. Johnson states that the sonnets' tone reveals the writer's personality and that personality differs from the biographical accounts of Shakespeare.

Author : Gerald Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets Unfolded written by Gerald Massey and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Massey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017137002
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Gerald Massey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Cuming Walters
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book The Mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets written by John Cuming Walters and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681145715
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Variety written by and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fragmentary comedy about the corruption of the judicial and monarchical systems in charge of granting aristocratic titles based on appearance instead of merit. This comedy includes several devices that are uniquely typical of Jonson’s authorial style, including the extraordinary number of five marriages in the resolution, and the intricate descriptions of the significance of outward appearance (in dance, clothing, makeup and gossip) in distinguishing anybody in Britain as superior or inferior. At the onset of the plot, Sir William is hoping to marry the wealthy-widow, Lady Beaufield, to gain access to her fortune. In parallel, Simpleton’s wealthy-widow Mother is hoping to marry a knight so she can gain the aristocratic title of a Lady. Meanwhile, Simpleton is courting Beaufield’s daughter, Lucy, who clearly favors her other suitor, Newman. Simpleton devises several schemes to win an advantage by hiring jeerers to ridicule Newman, as well as hiring Voluble to give Newman a false prophecy to manipulate him toward whoring and drinking. By the end, Simpleton even attempts to kidnap Lucy to force her into marriage. In the background of these various courtships, the French dance teacher, Galliard, is tutoring his wealthy students in dance. And Voluble and Nice are teaching proper manners, dress and other outward signs of aristocratic breeding in their Female Academy. These seemingly silly and pretty tropes are clouding the fact that Galliard confesses he has escaped being executed for attempting to overthrow the French King in 1632, and Voluble is repeatedly accused of witchcraft. More importantly, the narrative explains the corrupt process that was involved in bribing judges and administrators into allowing a wealthy gentry landowner, like Mother, to purchase her way into the aristocracy through a vacant baronet title. Mother merely has to choose between going through the ladyfying schooling herself, or completely negating her burden by hiring an actress, such as Nice (the chambermaid), to pretend to be her in public appearances. The dialogue refers to several people who were granted aristocratic titles by this corrupt process, starting with the 1st Lord of Lorne of Scotland in 1439, and as late as the Duke of Buckingham in 1623. Many of the contextual references mention the Percys’ Northumberland estate’s Scottish neighbors, as well as other Percy-associated places and people in the Buckingham Palace and Newcastle; thus, this play is likely to have been closeted by Percy until after his death because Jonson was criticizing the Percys’ involvement in these title-purchasing schemes. Percy (as the primary ghostwriter) and Jonson (as the secondary) had written about knighthood-purchasing and James I’s trade in titles to his Scottish and Scottish-adjacent comrades in Eastward Ho! These frank confessions about corruption in the monarchy led to Jonson’s temporary imprisonment in 1605. This volume includes translations of all of Jonson’s authentic letters. These include the letter he wrote in 1605, during this Eastward imprisonment, wherein Jonson asks Percy to help free him from being implicated in seditious remarks that he claims were Percy’s portion of the composition. The annotations across Variety provide a myriad of scholarly revelations, supported with precise evidence. One of these is new proof for the misdating for several antique-like forgeries of broadsheet ballads. Introductory sections explain why this play has been mis-attributed to “William Cavendish”, and the complex biographical overlaps between the Jonson and “John Donne” bylines and handwriting styles. The historical introduction to the types of dance-instructors Variety is satirizing is assisted by the translation from French into English of fragments from Apologie de la Danse or Apology for the Dance by “Par F. de Lauze” (1623). Acronyms and Figures Exordium Plot and Staging The Letters of Ben Jonson and “John Donne” “Francois de Lauze’s” Apology for the Dance (1623) Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises