He dedicated them to someone whose initials were W.H.
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
Shakespeare didn't publish any sonnets. He wrote 154 sonnets which were all published during his lifetime but they were never published by him. Two of them were published in a volume called The Passionate Pilgrim by Isaac Jaggard in 1599. All 154 were published in a volume called "Shake-speare's Sonnets" in 1609 by one Thomas Thorpe.
Sonnets
The short poems in the first published edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets are numbered 1-154. There are separate sonnets within certain of his plays and he may well have penned others which have not survived.
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He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
Shakespeare didn't publish any sonnets. He wrote 154 sonnets which were all published during his lifetime but they were never published by him. Two of them were published in a volume called The Passionate Pilgrim by Isaac Jaggard in 1599. All 154 were published in a volume called "Shake-speare's Sonnets" in 1609 by one Thomas Thorpe.
Sonnets
38 plays, 154 sonnets
154 Sonnets of William Shakespeare
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).
The short poems in the first published edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets are numbered 1-154. There are separate sonnets within certain of his plays and he may well have penned others which have not survived.
=I am not sure about long poems but he wrote 154 sonnets. =]==I hope I have helped you==-Hannah(:==I am not sure about long poems but he wrote 154 sonnets. =]==I hope I have helped you==-Hannah(:=
Sonnets: he wrote 154 of them.
For writing 154 sonnets
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, which are identified by number (001 through 154). Sometimes these are referred to by their opening line as well. Check the "related links" below for a list of all of these.
he had 368 plays and 154 sonnets