Name: The Sonnets/William Shakespeare
Brand: Signet Book
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The Signet Classic Shakespeare Series The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars The Sonnets UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE SIGNET CLASSICS SHAKESPEARE - An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and sonnets by the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University - Special introduction to The Sonnets , by W. H. Auden - Literary criticism by William Empson, Hallett Smith, Winifred M. T. Nowottny, and Helen Vendler - Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the sonnets - List of recommended reading - All text printed in the clearest, most readable type About the Author: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was born at Stratford upon Avon in April, 1564. He was the third child, and eldest son, of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. His father was one of the most prosperous men of Stratford, who held in turn the chief offices in the town. In December, 1582, Shakespeare married Ann Hathaway, a farmer's daughter; their first child Susanna was baptized on May 6, 1583, and twins, Hamnet and Judith, on February 22, 1585. Little is known of Shakespeare's early life; but it is unlikely that a writer who dramatized such an incomparable range and variety of human kinds and experiences spent his early manhood entirely in a country town. There is one popular theory that he fled from Stratford because he was in trouble for deer stealing, another that he was for some time a schoolmaster. From 1592 onwards the records are much fulle