Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the collection of poems published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, “never before imprinted”. Yet, while some of Shakespeare's other poems and ...

Margreta de Grazia, The Motive for Interiority: Shakespeare's "Sonnets and Hamlet", Style, Vol. 23, No. 3, Texts and Pretexts in the English Renaissance (Fall 1989), pp. 430-444 ...

Below is an example of an Elizabethan, or Shakespearean sonnet, written by hip-hop poet Devon Glover aka Sonnet Man, about the founding of Southern Shakespeare Company — try to have as much fun ...

4. Sonnet 71 In Sonnet 71, the poet anticipates his own death and urges the beloved to forget him when he is gone. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead,” he writes.

For example, Venus and Adonis and Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594, and one of the articles of Shakespearean faith has been that they are “more youthful work” than the Sonnets.

First published 400 years ago, Shakespeare's sonnets might never have been put to press had it been left to the author to decide things. As Clinton Heylin, the author of the new book So Long as ...