Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana presents a captivating exploration into the age of Elizabethan poetry, bringing together two seminal works that encapsulate the rich tapestry of the sonnet form during this golden era. The anthology elegantly weaves thematic explorations of love, beauty, and the complexities of human emotion, showcasing the enduring nature and diversity of the sonnet. These works demonstrate a mastery of literary styles, ranging from the introspective and mournful t...

Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana presents an exquisite symposium of poetic mastery emblematic of the Elizabethan era's profound engagement with the sonnet form. This anthology beckons readers to explore the thematic richness and stylistic innovations that characterized the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Assembled without singular authorship focus, the collection reflects a tapestry of affectations, from courtly love to spiritual introspection. The cycles, including the poignan...

Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana is a masterful anthology that explores the ingenuity and versatility of the Elizabethan sonnet form. This anthology emphasizes the rich interplay of themes such as unrequited love, enduring beauty, and the philosophical reflections of desire, capturing the quintessence of an era where the sonnet cycle epitomized literary sophistication. The collection presents a tapestry of styles, from the passionate intensity of amorous admiration to the subtle in...

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Famous Shakespeare Sonnets.

"The Two Noble Kinsmen" is a fantastic adaptation of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale", but also has echoes of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as two of the major characters are Theseus and Hippolyta, who also appear in the earlier play.The play is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher and first published in 1634.Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrative follows the title characters, Palamon and Arcite...

The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage. Many of the sonnets - in particular the first 17, commonly called the procreation sonnets - were commissioned, a fact which calls a simple, romantic reading into question.

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers...

The first known record of the the poignant tale of Psyche's labors to reclaim the love of Cupid is recorded by Lucius Apuleius in the second century AD. When the beautiful Psyche attracts the jealous wrath of Venus, Venus sends her son Cupid to bewitch the girl and cause her to fall in love with a monster, but Cupid himself falls in love with his mother's nemesis and secretly becomes her husband. Psyche is instructed that she must never look at Cupid, for in looking at him she will lose hi...

Do you long to be seductive? Have a desire to be seduced? Then “let lips do what hands do” and put into practice the most enticing baubles of seduction ever written. Shakespeare and the Art of Verbal Seduction contains the Bard’s best seducing lines to cajole, charm, and even proposition the object of your desire.Shakespeare is the master of persuasion. He induces the hardest of hearts to give up mind, body, and soul with a brilliant flash of words. Here they’re co...