{"product_id":"2940012696656","title":"Sonnets","description":"Sonnets\u003cbr\u003eby William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection, entitled SHAKE-SPEARE's SONNETS, comprising 152 previously unpublished sonnets and two poems, numbers 138 (\"When my love swears that she is made of truth\") and 144 (\"Two loves have I, of comfort and despair\"), that had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sonnets were published under conditions that have become unclear to history. Although the works were written by Shakespeare, it is not known if the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, used an authorized manuscript from him, or an unauthorized copy. Also, there is a mysterious dedication at the beginning of the text wherein a certain \"Mr. W.H.\" is described as \"the onlie begetter\" of the poems by the publisher Thomas Thorpe, but it is not known who this man was. The dedication refers to the poet as \"Ever-Living\", a phrase which has helped fuel the Shakespearean authorship debate due to its use as an epithet for the deceased (Shakespeare himself used the phrase in this way in Henry VI, part 1 (IV, iii, 51-2) describing the dead Henry V as \"[t]hat ever-living man of memory\"). Authorship proponents believe this phrase indicates that the real author of the sonnets was dead by 1609, whereas Shakespeare of Stratford lived until 1616. Adding further to the authorship debate, Shakespeare's name is hyphenated on the title page and on the top of every other page in the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first 17 sonnets are written to a young man, urging him to marry and have children, thereby passing down his beauty to the next generation. These are called the procreation sonnets. Most of them, however, 18-126, are addressed to a young man expressing the poet's love for him. So\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Titles of William Shakespeare Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Alls Well That Ends Well\u003cbr\u003e 2. Antony and Cleopatra\u003cbr\u003e 3. As You Like It\u003cbr\u003e 4. Comedy of Errors\u003cbr\u003e 5. Coriolanus\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cymbeline\u003cbr\u003e 7. Hamlet\u003cbr\u003e 8. Julius Caeser\u003cbr\u003e 9. King Henry the Fourth Part I\u003cbr\u003e 10. King Henry the Eighth\u003cbr\u003e 11. King Henry the Fifth\u003cbr\u003e 12. King Henry the Fourth Part II\u003cbr\u003e 13. King Henry The Sixth Part I\u003cbr\u003e 14. King Henry The Sixth Part II\u003cbr\u003e 15. King Henry the Sixth Part III\u003cbr\u003e 16. King John\u003cbr\u003e 17. King Lear\u003cbr\u003e 18. King Richard the Second\u003cbr\u003e 19. King Richard the Third\u003cbr\u003e 20. Loves Labour Lost\u003cbr\u003e 21. Macbeth\u003cbr\u003e 22. A Lovers Complaint\u003cbr\u003e 23. Measure for Measure\u003cbr\u003e 24. Merchant of Venice\u003cbr\u003e 25. Merry Wives of Windsor\u003cbr\u003e 26. Midsummers' Night Dream\u003cbr\u003e 27. Much Ado About Nothing\u003cbr\u003e 28. Othello\u003cbr\u003e 29. Pericles Prince of Tyre\u003cbr\u003e 30. Rape of Lucrece\u003cbr\u003e 31. Romeo and Juliet\u003cbr\u003e 32. Taming of the Shrew\u003cbr\u003e 33. Tempest\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Winter's Tale\u003cbr\u003e 35. Timon of Athens\u003cbr\u003e 36. Titus Andronicus\u003cbr\u003e 37. Troilus and Cressida\u003cbr\u003e 38. Twelfth Night\u003cbr\u003e 39. Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003cbr\u003e 40. Two Noble Kinsmen\u003cbr\u003e 41. Venus and Adonis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor additional information on publishing your books on iPhone and iPad please visit www.AppsPublisher.com","brand":"Apps Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145355772144,"sku":"2940012696656","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012696656_p0.jpg?v=1763571826","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012696656","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}