...


A Lover's Complaint - Shall I Die, Shall I Fly - The Passionate Pilgrim - The Phoenix and the Turtle - Sonnets - The Rape of Lucrece - Venus and Adonis

...


Sonnets

...


on sonnets in general (genre, form)
on-line editions / translations (Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Rumanian, Russian, Chinese etc.) / sources and context / film versions / adaptations in literature / adaptations in music / paintings / criticism / in the classroom / deutsche Webseiten / just for fun

.


Neu:
William Shakespeare - Markus Marti: Sonnets - Sonett in deutscher und walliserdeutscher Übertragung. Edition Signathur, Dozwil 2010 / ISBN 978-3-908141-64-8; SFR 33.-/ 23 €
Order at / Bestellen bei
signathur@gmx.ch

William Shakespeare's Sonnets. For the First Time Globally Reprinted. A Quatercentenary Anthology 1609-2009
.
Edited by Manfred Pfister and Jürgen Gutsch. Edition SIGNAThUR, Dozwil 2009.
ISBN 978-3-908141-54-9; Sfr. 95.- / 63 €
Order at / Bestellen bei
signathur@gmx.ch

"...lesen, wie krass schön du bist konkret" - William Shakespeare, Sonett 18 vermittelt durch deutsche Übersetzer. Hrg. Jürgen Gutsch. Dozwil 2003. Edition SIGNAThUR, ISBN 3-908141-28-1Order at / Bestellen bei
signathur@gmx.ch


Bernays, Ludwig. 56 Sonette von Shakespeare, Dozwil und Zürich, 2002. Order at / Bestellen bei
signathur@gmx.ch


on sonnets in general

Delahoyde, Michael. (Oxfordian) Renaissance sonnets. [http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/ren.sonnets.html] (Jan. 2002)

Erskine, John. The Sonnet-Series (1908) [http://www.sonnets.org/erskine.htm]; chapter on Shakespeare [http://www.sonnets.org/erskineu.htm] (May 2002)

Frye, Prosser Hall. The Elizabethan Sonnet (1908) [http://www.sonnets.org/frye.htm] (Aug. 2010)

A Guide to the Sonnet - Published by the University of Tennessee [http://www.utm.edu/departments/english/everett/sonnet.htm]

Robert Wohlleben: Sonett - funktioniert die Form? in fulgura frango. Darin auch: Gernhardt, Robert. Materialien zu einer Kritik der bekanntesten Gedichtform italienischen Ursprungs [http://www.fulgura.de/extern/rw/funktion01.html] (Aug. 2010)

Handprint Media. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Style, Themes, and Synopses) [http://www.handprint.com/SC/SHK/sonnets.html]

Sonnet criticism A large number of texts regarding the sonnet form [http://www.sonnets.org/critic.htm] (May 2002)

Hecht, Anthony. "The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex and History." Antioch Review also here: [http://www.jstor.org/pss/4613483] (Aug. 2010)

Noble, James Ashcroft. The Sonnet in England (1880) [http://www.sonnets.org/noblea.htm] (May 2002)


top of page


on-line editions

The Sonnets (1609) electronic old spelling edition, HTML edition, SGML- and COCOA-encoded texts; editors: Hardy M. Cook and Ian Lancashire. [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/shakespeare/1609inti.html] (23/11/99)

The Sonnets illustrated, annotated, text facsimilies, searchable etc. [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/]

The Sonnets (1609), University of Virginia,

The Sonnets: A facsimile edition of the Chalmers-Bridgewater Copy of the Quarto edition (1609)
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/Sonnets/Sonnets.html]

The Sonnets: All sonnets (modern text edition) and an authorship debate. [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4081/Sonnets.html] (23/11/99)

The Sonnets: page by William Sutton. Also: Sonnets arranged by themes (such as: sex, eyes, time etc.); Workshops on verse and acting.
[http://www.iloveshakespeare.com/ ] (24/04/01)

The Sonnets (modern text) [http://www.island-of-freedom.com/SHSPEARE.HTM]


Open Source Shakespeare: Searchable Database: [http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/] (Aug. 2010)

Audio recordings: Sonnets (Sir John Gielgud) (Aug. 2010)

top of page


translations

Sonnet 66 (1translation into Belarussian; 8 translations into Czech; 2 Dutch; 4 German; 1 Polish; 1 Rumanian; 26+5 translations into Russian; 2 Spanish; 1 Swedish; 2 Ukrainian translations) [http://www.geocities.com/vz_libr/sonnet66/index.html]
[http://zelenkov.isir.minsk.by/library/sonnet66/]
[http://libr.h1.ru/sonnet66/] (None of these links works anymore, 2010)

in Chinese:

Robert Tsou, Sonnet 71 in Chinese [http://home.earthlink.net/~rmwt/]

in Czech:

Sonnet 66 (8 translations) [http://www.geocities.com/vz_libr/sonnet66/index.html]

in Dutch:

Sonnetten Dutch translation by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)



in French:

French prose translation with pictures by Etienne Yver: les 154 sonnets, mis en image par Etienne Yver [http://www.chez.com/shake/]; start with number 1 [http://www.chez.com/shake/sonnet1.html]


in German:

See on this website: German Translators of Shakespeare's Sonnets

and, of course :) my own translations
Marti, Markus. Shakespeares Sonette

Sonette, German translation, Max Wolf, [http://www.projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/sonett/0sonette.htm]


Sonnet 18:
"...lesen, wie krass schön du bist konkret" - William Shakespeare, Sonett 18 vermittelt durch deutsche Übersetzer. Hrg. Jürgen Gutsch. Dozwil 2003. Edition SIGNAThUR, ISBN 3-908141-28-1
(155 Versionen)
Bestellen via: signathur@gmx.ch
Friesisch: [http://www.landeskulturverband-sh.de/aktuelles/newsdetails/shakespeares-sonnets-global-shakespeare-sonette-auf-friesisch/?tx_ttnews[pointer]=1]


in Italian:

I sonetti [http://www.shakespeareweb.net/sonetti/shakespeare_sonetti_introduzione.htm] (Aug. 2010)

in Latin
Gulielmi Shakespeare Carmina quae Sonnets nuncupantur Latine reddita ab Alvredo Thoma Barton Edenda curavit Joannes Harrower Latin translation by Alfred Thomas Barton, 1913. ed. by Claude Pavur, St. Luis University. [http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/latinitas/dv/dv.html] (Oct. 04)

Barton, Alfred Thomas: GVLIELMI SHAKESPEARE CARMINA ... , ed. Ludwig Bernays, Dozwil und Zürich, 2002. Order at / Bestellen bei
signathur@gmx.ch

in Polish

Sonnet 66 [http://www.geocities.com/vz_libr/sonnet66/index.html]

in Rumanian

Sonnet 66 [http://www.geocities.com/vz_libr/sonnet66/index.html]

in Russian:

Sonet LXVI (Sonnet 66), Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) Text in Russian [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=19545]

in Spanish:

Sonetos de William Shakespeare en espanol, trad. por el poeta cubano Ariel Laurencio Tacoronte, (1995-98) [http://letras.webz.cz/shkspr/
] (Sept. 2002)

48 sonetos de amor; transl. Mario Alejandro Monroy? introduction by Jorge Luis Borges [http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/4772/Sonetos.html]


in Swedish:

Sonnet 66 [http://www.geocities.com/vz_libr/sonnet66/index.html]

in Ukrainian:

Tarnawskyj, Ostap (1997)

All sonnets in Ukrainian [http://poetry.uazone.net/shakespeare/] (Dec. 04)
All sonnets in English and Ukrainian [http://poetry.uazone.net/shakespeare/alfavit.html]


top of page

sources and context; contemporary sonneteers

Elisabethan Sonneteers (Gascoigne, Fletcher, Raleigh, Spenser, Lok, Greville, Sidney, Watson, Smith, Best, Griffin, Lynce, Constable, Daniel, Drayton, Sylvester, Davies, Craig, Alabaster, Barnes, Barnfield, Percy) at: [http://www.sonnets.org/eliz.htm]


Petrarca, Canzoniere (full text in Italian) [http://digilander.iol.it/bepi/biblio3b/canzo.html] (14/06/00)

Sonnet Central [http://www.sonnets.org/alpha.htm]

The Sonnets illustrated, annotated, searchable etc. [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/]
includes:
Thomas Lodge, Sonnets to Phyllis [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Lodge.htm]
Sir Philipp Sidney, Astrophel and Stella [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Astro1.htm]
Sir Philipp Sidney A Defence of Poesie (Cassel's edition, 1891)
[http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/def91.htm]
Thomas Watson: The Tears of Fancie, or Love disdained (1593)
[http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Watson.htm]
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Spenser1.htm]
Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Barnes01.htm]
Bartholomew Griffin. Sonnets to Fidessa (1596) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Fidessa.htm]
Samuel Daniel. Delia (Renascence Editions) [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Delia.htm]

top of page


film versions

Passion in Pieces short films based on the sonnets by Sam Small. (old title: Shocking Tales) [http://www.passioninpieces.co.uk/] (May 2002)

I et hjørne av verden / In a Corner of the World (Norvay, 2000, animation) dir. Pjotr Sapegin . [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0237326] (Dec. 2001)


adaptations in literature

Titles from The Sonnets [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/sonnets.html]

Condello, Enzo. Shakespeare and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets (play, 2005) see pdf-file www.italydownunder.com.au/issuetwelve/condello.pdf or html-version

Herbert, John. Fortune and Men's Eyes. (play) 1967. (Sonnet 29)

Shaw, George Bernhard. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910), with a preface by the author [http://eserver.org/drama/dark-lady-of-the-sonnets/], also here:
Shaw, George Bernhard. The Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Essay and Play) [ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext97/dlots10.txt]
and here: [http://www.clubi.ie/qualitycompany/ss/darklady.txt]

Wilde, Oscar. The Portrait of Mr. W. H. [http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/wilde/stories/oscar10.html] or: [http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/wilde/stories/chap10.pdf]

Sonnet Central: an archive of English sonnets [http://www.sonnets.org/alpha.htm]


top of page


adaptations in music

Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/] or: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/show_poems_in_group.html?CID=246

Sonnet Nr. 8:
Igor Stravinski, Three Songs from William Shakespeare, no. 1

Sonnet Nr. 66:
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), 1942, Sonette, Lieder, no. 4. [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/s66.html]

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Sonet LXVI (Sonnet 66), op. 62 no. 5 (also op. 140 no. 5) Text in Russian by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=19545]

Nr. 130:
Erich Korngold (1897-1957), op. 38, 5 Lieder, Nr. 5

paintings, illustrations


French prose translation with pictures by Etienne Yver: les 154 sonnets, mis en image par Etienne Yver [http://www.chez.com/shake/]; start with number 1 [http://www.chez.com/shake/sonnet1.html]
Frost, W. E. "Disarming of Cupid" (picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)

top of page

criticism

Cook, Hardy M. "Valuing the Material Text: A Plea for a Change in Policy Concerning Selection of Reference Texts for Future New Variorum Shakespeare Editions, with Examples from the 1609 Quarto of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS." 1994. Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

Davies, Nigel. The Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets (sonnets 127-152) [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4081/DarkLady.html]

Davies, Nigel. The Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets (sonnets 21-86) [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4081/RivalPoet.html]

Davies, Nigel. The Young Man of Shakespeare's Sonnets (sonnets 1-17, 20) [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4081/YoungMan.html]

Erskine, John. The Sonnet-Series (1908) [http://www.sonnets.org/erskine.htm]; chapter on Shakespeare [http://www.sonnets.org/erskineu.htm] (May 2002)

Gregerson, Linda. Sonnet 116 [http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/shakespeare.htm]

Go, Kenji. 'I am that I am' in Shakespeare's Sonnet 121 and 1 Corinthians 15:10, pp. 241-242, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Halpern, Richard: "Shakespeare's Perfume" This chapter is taken from Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in Shakespeare, Wilde, Freud and Lacan. It argues that sodomy, a legal and theological category, becomes entangled with aesthetic issues from the very beginning, and bears a close relation to an aesthetics of the sublime.... in: Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar. (1-29-02) [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/halpern.html] (March 2002)

Handprint Media. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Style, Themes, and Synopses) [http://www.handprint.com/SC/SHK/sonnets.html]

Hecht, Anthony. "The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex and History." Antioch Review also here: [http://www.jstor.org/pss/4613483] (Aug. 2010)

Hohl Trillini, Regula. The gaze of the listener: Another look at Sonnet 128 (article on this site)

Jackson, MacD. P. Dating Shakespeare's Sonnets: Some Old Evidence Revisited, pp. 237-241, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Johnston, Ian. A Note on Shakespeare's Sonnets [http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/sonnets.htm]

Lanier, Douglas. Fertile Visions: Jacobean Revels and the Erotics of Occasion, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 39.2 (1999) p. 327-356 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v039/39.2lanier.html]

Luhr, Geret. "Der wahre Shakespeare in love: die Sonette in neuen Übersetzungen" [http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=144&ausgabe=199905]

Mabillard, Amanda. Sinful Treasure: Sonnet 75 [http://shakespeare.about.com/arts/shakespeare/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm]

Mabillard, Amanda. Desire is Death: Sonnet 147 [http://shakespeare.about.com/arts/shakespeare/library/weekly/aa070700a.htm]

Matsuba, Stephen. "`The Cunning Pattern of Excelling Nature': Literary Computing and Shakespeare's Sonnets." 1989. Shaksper webpage: [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/computer.sonnets.html]

Minto, William Elizabethan Sonneteers (1885). [http://www.sonnets.org/minto1.htm]

Stetner, Clifford. The Political Neoplatonism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/stetner4.html] (July 05)

Stetner, Clifford. Breaking the Cycle. Shakespeare and the Deconstruction of the Sonnets. [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/breakingcycle.htm] (July 05)

Vendler, Helen The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Introduction) [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/v/vendler-sonnets.html] (Aug. 2010)

Vendler, Helen. Sonnet 1 [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/venart/sonnet1_com.html]

Vendler, Helen. Sonnet 30 [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/venart/sonnet30_com.html]

Wilde, Oscar: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. [http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/wilde/stories/oscar10.html] or: [http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/wilde/stories/chap10.pdf]


top of page


in the classroom

The Sonnets illustrated, annotated etc. [http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/]

The Sonnets: page by William Sutton. Also: Sonnets arranged by themes (such as: sex, eyes, time etc.); Workshops on verse and acting.
[http://www.iloveshakespeare.com/ ] (24/04/01)


deutsche Webseiten

Gröchel, André: William Shakespeare - Lyrik: Gut gestaltete deutsche Website mit Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung, Hintergründe, Links zu deutschen und englischen elektronischen Texten usw. [http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/lyrik.htm#sonette] Falls der Link nicht klappt:
[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/lyrik.htm#sonette]


just for fun

Send any Shakespearean Sonnet as an electronic greeting card with music etc.: [http://classicgreetings.com/poetrycards/WilliamShakespearecards/cg.html] (Aug. 2010)
No longer available:
Blue Mountain Art's William Shakespeare Page. [http://www.bluemountain.com/eng/shakespeare/index.html] (last visit: 21/3/00

Gwynn, R. S. Which play is it? A "Shakespearean Sonnet (With a first line taken from the tv listings)" covering 14 plays.

Gernhardt, Robert. Materialien zu einer Kritik der bekanntesten Gedichtform italienischen Ursprungs [http://www.fulgura.de/sonett/karussel/253.htm]

Marti, Pfister, Poethe et al.: Williamsbirne - Williams Birne. Sonette, Villanellen etc. (this site)

top of page

...

 

navigation with scrollbar

no frame


Shakespeare in Europe
University of Basel, Switzerland
(
English Department)


If a site is no longer accessible, try the WEB ARCHIVE: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/] + [URL]
for suggestions, additions, dead links etc. contact
webmaster

last changes: August 2010