Sonnets. Shakespeare U.

William Shakespeare's sonnets are one of the most famous mysteries of the poetic heritage of the great English playwright. For the first time published almost five centuries ago, they still excite the minds of researchers. How autobiographic is the sonnet cycle? Was there really a love triangle in Shakespeare's life? Who is hidden under the names of a friend and a dark -skinned lady? Some scientists argue that all poems reflect the author’s life experience, others, on the contrary, see only a literary exercise in a fashionable style. Enthusiastic and gloomy, light and deep - sonnets relate to the most important topics of human being: friendship, honor, beauty, and, of course, love.

The sonnets are given in the classic translation of Samuel Marshak. The preface and afterword Grigory Kruzhkov. The publication is supplemented by the illustrations of Henry Ostvat.