Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 28 plays and two long poems (maybe 3, if you count the Turtle and the Phoenix)
One, the last two lines of the sonnet. The rest of the sonnet is in groups of four.
He wrote 38 plays (that we have), 154 sonnets, two long poems and sundry other verse.
A Sonnet Cycle is a set of sonnets that usually tell a story (often a love story of some kind). In English the two first sonnet cycles were Philip Sidney's Astrophel to Stella - which tells the story of Astrophel's love for Stella - and Samuel Daniel's Delia, which is very similar. Astrophel and Delia don't have much of a plotline (there is a faint one, if you read carefully), but W S Blunt's Esther has a clear story to tie the sonnets together (it is probably a heavily fictionalised account of his affair with Catherine Skittles Walters). A group of sonnets which share a common theme, but don't tell a story, is often called a Crown of Sonnets. If the unifying factor is a story of some kind, Sonnet Cycle is the preferred term. But many critics use Crown of Sonnets and Sonnet Cycle interchangeably (and few contemporary poets write either).
There are at least three sonnets in Romeo and Juliet. The prologue to Act One is a sonnet, as is the prologue to Act Two. Romeo and Juliet also create a unique two person sonnet in Act One, Scene Five starting where Romeo says "If I profane with my unworthiest hand" (Romeo 1.5.91) and ending with "Then move not while my prayer's effect I take" (Romeo 1.5.104).
There are two main types of sonnets: the Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and the English/Shakespearean sonnet. The Italian sonnet consists of an octave followed by a sestet, while the English sonnet consists of three quatrains and a final couplet.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 28 plays and two long poems (maybe 3, if you count the Turtle and the Phoenix)
This is a trick question. All sonnets have 14 lines
One, the last two lines of the sonnet. The rest of the sonnet is in groups of four.
38 plays, 154 sonnets
i think its the 'beat' if the sonnet and how many words are in a sonnet. But it isn't. What makes it a Shakespearean sonnet is the rhyme scheme which is ababcdcdefefgg. The 'beat' of all sonnets in English is iambic pentameter, and it doesn't matter how many words there are.
He wrote 38 plays (that we have), 154 sonnets, two long poems and sundry other verse.
A sonnet can be written about anything, but it is in such a form that lofty concepts can be described or expressed much better than in blank verse or modern poetry. Many sonnets written were love sonnets, but many weren't. Shakespeare never said that sonnets have to be one way or the other. Shakespeare wasn't living in this current complicated culture which can be very baffling and even overwhelming.
None, obviously. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. A Shakespearean play is a drama involving dozens of actors, props and stage directions, taking about three hours to perform. Sometimes sonnets are imbedded in the plays, notably in Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost.
Many 16th century musicans and composers made operas and sonnets.
The term "sonnet" derives from the Provençal word sonet and the Italian word "sonetto," both meaning "little song." By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. The conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. The writers of sonnets are sometimes referred to as "sonneteers," although the term can be used derisively. Many modern writers of sonnets choose simply to be called "sonnet writers." One of the most well known sonnet writers is Shakespeare, who wrote 154 sonnets. Traditionally, when writing sonnets, English poets usually employ iambic pentameter. In the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used metres. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet for more.
William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and approximately 38 plays.