Collection Title | Commentary |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) | Read more |
All's Well that Ends Well (excerpts) | Read more |
Astrophel and Stella | Read more |
Hamlet (excerpts) | Read more |
Macbeth (excerpts) | Read more |
Modern Love | Read more |
Richard II (excerpts) | Read more |
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) | Read more |
Shakespeare's Sonnets |
In 1598 Francis Meres praised “mellifluous & hony-tongued” Shakespeare for his Ovidian poetry, Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, and “his sugred Sonnets among his private friends” (Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury, fols. 281v-82r). Some of these poems, like Sonnet 145 (thought to describe Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway), were likely printed by Thomas Thorpe in his quarto of 1609, Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, but editors and critics have plausibly dated the composition of most of the sonnets to the following decade. Read more |
Sonnets from the Portuguese | Read more |