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Article: BOOKS: Sonnets fit for a queen; Shakespeare Sonnets by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Oxford University Press, pounds 25.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
If you ever thought Shakespeare's sonnets had little to offer outside a university seminar, then think again.
With its firework displays of erudition and logic, along with its wit and sense of sheer delight, this book is certainly the most fascinating account of the sonnets and all their complex history that you are likely to meet for the next decade.
Edmondson and Wells (a kind of Morecambe and Wise of academia - if they will pardon the irreverence) enlighten, amuse and provoke in an area too often clouded by obfuscation ...