All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

‘small Latin and less Greek’.

We hope that in consistently identifying the sex of the addressee, and especially by signalling when this cannot be determined, we have played a part in emphasising the bisexual quality of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. The multiplicity of the Sonnets’ sexual identities is matched by their gender fluidity – as dizzying and as complex as that bodied forth in Shakespeare’s

His plays echo with his sonnets; his sonnets echo with his plays, and it is this interplay within his art that helps to make Shakespeare the supreme poet-dramatist. Sonnet writing forms a crucial part of his creative endeavour

And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth despite his cruel hand.