William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets (Annotated) William Shakespeare

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Shakespeare's Sonnets are a set of 154 poems in the strophic form of the English sonnet, covering subjects such as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were written, probably, over several years, to be finally published, except the first two, in 1609; Issues 138 ("When I love swears that she is made of truth") and 144 ("Two loves have I, of comfort and despair") had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim ("The Passionate Pilgrim "). The Sonnets were published under conditions that are still uncertain today. For example, there is a mysterious dedication at the beginning of the text where a certain Mr. W. H. it is described by a certain T. T. (supposedly its editor, Thomas Thorpe)