Sonnet 29 Group

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manikkam
manikkam
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College - Senior

How many sonnets did shakespeare write?

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Posted by manikkam on Saturday February 17, 2007 at 1:43 AM and tagged with themes.


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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    While it is possible that Shakespeare wrote more sonnets that were lost to history, we have the text of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare.

    Greg

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    Posted by gbeatty on Saturday February 17, 2007 at 8:39 AM


  2. brendawm Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

    There are 154 printed sonnets divided into three groups:

    o        Sonnets 1 to 126 are addressed to or concern a young man

    o        Sonnets 127-152 are addressed to or concern a dark lady

    o        Sonnets 153-154 are free adaptations of two classical Greek poems

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    Posted by brendawm on Saturday September 29, 2007 at 1:11 PM

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