Shakespeare's Sonnets Freshly Phrased
Hardback
Timeless Verse Retold for Modern Readers
How Would Shakespeare Phrase His Sonnets Today?In this unique volume, you can fully enjoy Shakespeare s Sonnets, a classic now newly rephrased for modern readers by Joseph Gallagher. Although straightforward in some respects, these remarkable works can be challenging thanks to four centuries of vocabulary and stylistic changes. Featuring the original themes that have made them so beloved such as inner and outer beauty, love and friendship, decay and death, absences, and rivalries this updated version retains the essence of the original edition as the Bard intended it."Joseph Gallagher s new book has not just wit and scholarship; here be passion." Baltimore Sun
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- ISBN: 9781435110342
- Author: Joseph Gallagher
- Pub date: 30.03.11
- RRP: $19.99
- Format: Hardback
Author
Joseph Gallagher
Joseph Gallagher was ordained a priest for the Baltimore, Maryland Archdiocese in the mid-1950s. He later served as an editor of the Baltimore Catholic Review and was the Archdiocesan archivist. He has taught and lectured at St. Mary s Seminary, Johns Hopkins University, Notre Dame College, and Loyola College.