Cambridge Shakespeare - All The Sonnets cupplay This is a portrait of

This is a portrait of Shakespeare

They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history

Sling it over your shoulder and show the world your fierce side

The head was first modelled in clay before being cast in fibreglass

Cambridge Shakespeare - All The Sonnets cupplay This is a portrait ofHow can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition.