In his own time; Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet; and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this edition; Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeares best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity; their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quartos spelling; punctuation; and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans; together with his detailed notes on each; and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout; the voices of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power.
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