Cambridge School Shakespeare: The Sonnets

Description

This complete and unabridged edition of The Sonnets provides a new look at Shakespeare's poems, encouraging students to work both individually and in groups to form their own responses to the sonnets. The activities and editorial comments cater for pupils of all ages and abilities, and provide clear and helpful guidelines for school study. Cambridge School Shakespeare offers a new and exciting approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. Based on extensive and successful trialling in the classroom, the series results from the most thorough research and development work by the Shakespeare and Schools Project with school and college students.

Reviews

"The whole job has been conscientiously and capably done. Gibson strikes an appropriate tone and register. As a school textbook of the sonnets this volume could hardly be bettered." Shakespeare Quarterly

Table of contents

What is a sonnet?; Introducing The Sonnets; Title page: 1609 edition; Dedications: 1609 edition; The sonnets; The sonnet tradition; Themes: love, time and poetry; The language of The Sonnets; Links with the plays; Studying The Sonnets; Index of first lines; William Shakespeare.