Description
Condition
GOOD: The book’s spine, covers, and pages are in good condition. There are no markings or highlights. The pages have no creasing, but they are tanning with age (1967).
Product Details
This book is part of the Folger Library Collections and is edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. There are black-and-white, pen-and-ink drawings throughout.
Every third line of each sonnet is numbered for easy reference. Each sonnet is preceded by a brief glossary (indexed by line number) and a brief summary. At the end of the book, there is a first line index.
Each sonnet itself has a number, with the last being Sonnet 154.
Other features of the The Folger Library Shakespeare editions include:
- reliable text with modernized spelling and punctuation
- scene-by-scene plot summaries
- explanatory notes that clarify obscure and obsolete expressions
- interpretative essay
- accounts of Shakespeare’s life and theater
- list of references for further reading