The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets

ISBN: 9780786432196

出版社: McFarland & Co Inc Pub

出版年: 2007-12

页数: 240

定价: $ 39.55

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.