Collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality

Homosexual desire in Shakespeare's England : a cultural poetics / Bruce R. Smith.

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Homosexual desire in Shakespeare's England : a cultural poetics / Bruce R. Smith.