The Sonnets (Signet Classic Shakespeare)

The Signet Classic Shakespeare Series
The work of the worlds greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars

The Sonnets
UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE SIGNET CLASSICS SHAKESPEARE

An extensive overview of Shakespeares life, world, and sonnets by the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University

Special introduction to The Sonnets, by W. H. Auden

Literary criticism by William Empson, Hallett Smith, Winifred M. T. Nowottny, and Helen Vendler

Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the sonnets

List of recommended reading

All text printed in the clearest, most readable type