Table of Contents

Acknowledgem ents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Venus and Adonis

Chapter 2 Lucrece

Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1-19: The Y oung
Man, the Poet and Father Tim e

Chapter 4 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 20-126: The Poet,
the Young Man, Androgyny and Friendship

Chapter 5 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 127—154: The Poet,
the Dark Lady and the Young Man

Conclusion
Index

About the Author

A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University.