The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (25.00). Merrill, Brian Thomas (jacket art) (illustrator). Ideal for students and general readers alike, this modern and accessible edition sets a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
Also featured are key facts about the individual selections an index of the first lines of the sonnets a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and recommendations for further reading. Incorporating definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works, this unique volume also includes an expanded Introduction by Jonathan Bate that places the poems in literary and historical context and illuminates their relationship to Shakespeare's dramatic writing. Produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare's sonnets, the long narrative poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," and several other shorter works. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. The serif font was chosen for its strength, beautiful characterstics, and readability. Text font is 11 point Goudy Old Style designed by U.S. Production team: Mae Barnard, Tina Budzinski, Alison Durham, Lori Holland, Steven Moore, Kathie Radenbaugh, and Andrea Worthing.