Shakespeare's Sonnets
Book Details
Author(s)Philip Terry
PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN184777072X
ISBN-139781847770721
AvailabilityUsually ships in 3 to 5 weeks
Sales Rank1,520,738
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare’s themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and anarchic, this exploration sheds light on Shakespeare and the contemporary world in a disturbing yet entertaining manner.

