A modern edition, with prose versions, introduction and notes.

Here is the definitive edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, made clear for the reader by modern versions in prose and explained with notes. The Sonnets have offered the greatest mystery in the world's literature and are notoriously difficult to grasp and understand. Yet, when read in sequence, they yield a story as strange, disturbing and exciting as any drama. They contain the drama of our greatest writer in the crucial years of his life, and constitute his autobiography. This is why they were suppressed after Thorp's surreptitious publication of them and went underground for a whole century of silence.