38 plays, 154 sonnets
The volume Shakespeare's Sonnets [1609] contains 154 sonnets, so the usual answer to this question is 154. There are a few 'sonnets' embedded in the plays (particularly in Romeo and Juliet); but people don't normally include these among Shakespeare's Sonnets (for a number of reasons).
Shakespeare was a famous poet who wrote many plays, sonnets, ballads, etc.
Shakespeare's plays still live because people keep on performing them all the time and all over the planet. His sonnets get anthologized and read all the time too. Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are often a part of school literature curricula and why not? Even the internet helps. Do you know how many websites there are about Shakespeare? How many videos of people saying speeches from the plays? Or reading the sonnets? It boggles the mind.
One hundred and fifty-four sonnets were contained in the omnibus Shake-speare's Sonnets published in 1609. Thirty-six plays were in the First Folio collection of 1623, but not included in this collection was Pericles (published in 1609) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (co-written with John Fletcher and published in 1634).364
We don't know how many sonnets were written by Shakespeare, because we do not know how many of these were unpublished and subsequently became lost.In his published works, the First Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets contains 154 such poems. Other sonnets appear within his published plays and in the collection of poems entitled The Passionate Pilgrime.There are numerous theories as to the identity of the dark lady of the Sonnets. None are proven. However, the only realistic candidate to date is Emilia Bassano (as brought out in The Biography in Shakespeare's Sonnets - see related link below).
Shakespeare is generally credited with 38 plays, 3 long poems, 154 sonnets, and one or two other random pieces of verse. But these totals can be different in the opinions of different scholars, who argue about some of the more dubious attributions. According to some people who think he was Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford, he wrote more after the time of his death.
William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and approximately 38 plays.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 28 plays and two long poems (maybe 3, if you count the Turtle and the Phoenix)
Shakespeare is well known for his contribution to literature through plays, poetry, and sonnets. It is said that he had many affairs with different women but an exact number is unknown.
William Shakespeare wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets. A sonnet is a poetic form consisting of 14 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter, and often follows specific rhyme schemes, such as the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet, which has the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Shakespeare's sonnets explore themes of love, beauty, time, and mortality.
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He wrote 38 plays (that we have), 154 sonnets, two long poems and sundry other verse.