The Sonnets

　　Alex Jennings will be the reader for this unabridged recording of the The Sonnets. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

　　William Shakespeare lived between 1552-1616, but his work endures and is enjoyed the world over. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Shakespeare: An Overview vii
Biographical Sketch vii I A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians,
Especially Baconians and Oxfordians xii / The Shake-
speare Canon xvi / Shakespeare's English xix / The Son-
nets xxvii
Introduction xxxvii
The Sonnets
Textual Note
'Commentaries
WILLIAM EMPSONThey That Have Power
HALLETT SMITHFrom Elizabethan Poetry
WINLIFRED M. T. NOWOTTNYFormal Elements in
Shakespeare'Sonnets: Sonnets
HELEN VENDLER'Sonnet
Suggested References
Index of First Lines