Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. The collection was first published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. In general, each sonnet is in iambic pentameter, and consists of three quatrains followed by a concluding couplet. The sonnets are about love, death, jealousy, procreation, beauty, etc.
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Plays |
Tragedies |
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Comedies |
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Histories |
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See also |
- Problem plays
- Late romances
- Characters
- Chronology
- Performances
- Settings
- Scenes
- Quarto publications
- First Folio
- Second Folio
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Poems |
- Shakespeare's sonnets
- A Lover's Complaint
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Venus and Adonis
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Apocrypha |
Plays |
- Arden of Faversham
- The Birth of Merlin
- Cardenio*Template:†
- Double Falsehood
- Edmund Ironside
- Fair Em
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- Love's Labour's WonTemplate:†
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton
- Mucedorus
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Sejanus His Fall
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Sir Thomas More*
- The Spanish Tragedy
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- Thomas of Woodstock
- Vortigern and Rowena
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
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Poems |
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- To the Queen
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Life
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Legacy |
- Attribution studies
- Authorship question
- Bardolatry
- Festivals
- Gardens
- Influence
- Memorials
- Screen adaptations
- Titles of works taken from Shakespeare
Institutions |
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Shakespeare's Globe (replica)
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Family |
- Anne Hathaway (wife)
- Susanna Hall (daughter)
- Hamnet Shakespeare (son)
- Judith Quiney (daughter)
- Elizabeth Barnard (granddaughter)
- John Shakespeare (father)
- Mary Arden (mother)
- Gilbert Shakespeare (brother)
- Joan Shakespeare (sister)
- Edmund Shakespeare (brother)
- Richard Shakespeare (grandfather)
- John Hall (son-in-law)
- Thomas Quiney (son-in-law)
- Thomas Nash (grandson-in-law)
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- * Shakespeare and other authors
- Template:† Lost
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Images for kids
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William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
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Dedication page from The Sonnets