Nowadays William Shakespeare is renown as one of the world's greatest and most prolific dramatists of all times.Both tragedies such as "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Anthony and Cleopatra", and light-hearted comedies like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are still box-office successes in theatres all around the globe.Yet, besides being a playwright, Shakespeare has also exercised his complex literary talents in poetry, appreciated in this domain especially due to his sonnets.
The sonnets written by Shakespeare generally follow the path opened by Petrarch in this literary genre two centuries before.…
