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Especially popular today because of their short-form Shakespeare's sonnets remain the most powerful statements of love, remorse and redemption.

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, the son of a glover, merchant and local justice of the peace. He attended an Elizabethan grammar school where children were taught mostly through Latin but was fairly wild and innocent young man, and in 1582, he married Anne Hathaway. Within a few years Shakespeare came to London, working hard to build his career as an actor and writer. He probably began to write for the stage in the late 1580s and had established as a dramatist by 1592. He is generally regarded as the world's greatest English writer.