The Poems
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Includes all the narrative poems that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare (Author), John Roe (Edited by)

9780521671620, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 June 2006

326 pages, 5 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.54 kg

'John Roe offers without doubt the best treatment of the poems for many years …' The Year's Work in Modern Languages

This second edition of Shakespeare's narrative poems contains an introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated and introduced, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim and A Lover's Complaint. An updated reading list completes the edition.

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
Note on the text
Recent critical interpretations
Principles of collation
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Passionate Pilgrim
A Lover's Complaint
Supplementary notes
Textual analysis
Reading list.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: general [DSB]