The Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare Series
The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars.
An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and sonnets by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University
Special introduction to The Sonnets, by W.H. Auden
Facsimilies of the 1609 quarto edition of The Sonnets
Textual Note, including a facsimilie showing a variant form of one sonnet
Literary criticism by William Empson, Hallett Smith, Winifred M. T. Nowottny, and Helen Vendler
Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type
Up-to-date list of recommended readings
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
Edited by William Burto with an Introduction by W. H. Auden
Shakespeare: An Overview
Biographical Sketch
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians
The Shakespeare Canon
Shakespeare's English
The Sonnets
Introduction
The Sonnets
Textual Note
Commentaries
William Empson: They That Have Power
Hallett Smith: From Elizabethan Poetry
Winifred M. T. Nowottny: Formal Elements in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sonnets 1-6
Helen Vendler: Sonnet 116
