A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse
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- Synopsis
- Shakespeare's best as chosen by the Ted Hughes. According to most anthologies, Shakespeare wrote only sonnets and songs for his plays. The reason for this is the reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks ... Yet when the great speeches of his plays are taken out of context they are no more difficult to understand and appropriate than those by other great poets. This clear, compact, inviting selection of Shakespeare's verse opens the door to new readers of our greatest writer and deepens lifelong readers' understanding of his work. Ted Hughes spent his life considering Shakespeare's works and drawing on them for his own poetry; his book-length account of Shakespeare's development, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, was one of the most distinctive works of literary criticism of recent years. For this selection, Hughes deliberately took strong, relatively self-contained passages of Shakespeare's verse out of the plays and arranged them in a pattern, like beads on a string, including the best-known songs and sonnets. The result is at once a revealing sequence of Shakespeare's verse and an anthology of his greatest bits.
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 216 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374122782
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Date of Addition:
- 05/15/09
- Copyrighted By:
- The Estate of Ted Hughes
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Trans Access
- Proofread By:
- Trans Access
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.