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. 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. 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? Enthusiastic and gloomy, light and deep - sonnets concern the most important topics of human being: friendship, honor, beauty, and, of course, love.

In this edition, mysterious, exciting with their beauty 154 masterpieces of English poetry are represented in the original language and translated by Nikolai Herbel.