Sonnets: William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets, first published in a 1609, is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The author plays with gender roles, comments on political events, makes fun of love, speaks openly about sexual desire, parodies beauty and even references pornography. Like Shakespeare's other works, Sonnets have been translated into many languages and reprinted many times.