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Contents

Editors' Preface

Shakespeare's Life

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Reading Shakespeare's Language: Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

An Introduction to This Text

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Text of the Poems with Commentary

Two Sonnets from The Passionate Pilgrim

Longer Notes

Shakespeare's Poems

Reading Shakespeare's Language: Venus and Adonis and Lucrece

An Introduction to This Text

Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Text of the Poem with Commentary

Longer Notes

Shakespeare's Lucrece

Lucrece

Text of the Poem with Commentary

Longer Notes

Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and Turtle"

"The Phoenix and Turtle"

Text of the Poem with Commentary

Longer Notes

Textual Notes

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Lucrece

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Appendix of Intertextual Material

Modern Perspectives

Shakespeare's Sonnets by Lynne Magnusson

Venus and Adonis and Lucrece by Catherine Belsey

Further Reading

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Poems

Index of First Lines of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Index of Illustrations