by William Shakespeare · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141021997
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«The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint» is William Shakespeare's poetry collection, published by Penguin UK in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The volume brings together Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, almost all addressed to an unknown young man or the enigmatic «dark lady», and includes the narrative poem «A Lover's Complaint», in which a young woman laments being abandoned by a seducer. Love, beauty, infidelity, memory and mortality are the great themes of this poetry.
Originally published in 1609, the poems appear in this 2005 edition with introduction and commentary by Kerrigan, in the New Penguin Shakespeare series.
A reference work for students of Shakespeare and for readers interested in English Renaissance lyric poetry.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
