Shakespeare
The Dark Lady
The Fair Young Man
Biography or Fiction?
The trying triangle affair!

Q35 No more be grieved at that which thou hast done,

Q40 Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all,
Q41 Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
Q42 That thou hast her it is not all my grief,
Q43 When most I wink then do mine eyes best see,

End of the Fair Young Man (FYM) sonnets.

Start of the Dark Lady (DL) Sonnets.


Q133 Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan,

Q134 So now I have confessed that he is thine,
Q135 Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will,

Q144 Two loves I have of comfort and despair,


An Ordering of the Sonnets?
Verse Time Muse Love Beauty
Immortal THEMES Element
Hate Eyes Sex Music Affair
The Characters in the Sonnets?
The Plot - Is there one?
Some Respected opinions