This is the first edition of Shakespeare's sonnets and other poems to be developed by and for
the RSC the world's leading theater company and it includes unique material to help the
reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare. It features: outstanding on-page notes which explain
words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience including the slang political references
and bawdy humor often ignored or censored in competing editions completely new introduction by
Jonathan Bate exploring the text and critical debates around it and clear easy-to-read page
design with a single sonnet to each page.Developed in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare
Company this fresh edition of Shakespeare's sonnets and other poems offers a completely new
introduction from renowned scholar Jonathan Bate outstanding on-page explanatory notes and a
clear easy-to-read design.
