About this e-Book

As much as Shakespeare's Sonnets are admired, they have not been as easily available to all readers as have the plays. Now the Internet has become the ideal way to share the Sonnets' wealth of beauty and emotion. Scholarly interest has increased steadily in the last half century: the number of editions has escalated, and films like Shakespeare in Love and the biographical expeditions on public television have drawn even more attention to England's permanent poet laureate. This book will not only provide a global public with a carefully modernized text of the Sonnets but will give a running commentary unraveling the intricacies of the story that Shakespeare has so cleverly contrived.

To navigate this web site, please click on the link on the left for the text you would like to view. The links in the navigation bar are arranged in sequence as a physical book would be with a title page and other preliminaries, including an introduction, sets of Sonnets, and notes. The link for a set of Sonnets will take you to a web page with links to individual Sonnets in PDF format. To view a sonnet, click on the link to that Sonnet. Some pages contain content both within FlashPaper and in the form of a link to download the PDF file at the bottom of the web page. You may need to scroll down the page to find the download link. If you would like to download the entire text, click on the link to Entire e-Book. The last link in the navigation bar provides information about the author and the artist of this web site.

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