Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Argues that lyric making is universal across cultures, and uses the example of Shakespeare's "Sonnets" to showcase the human disposition to play with lyrical patterns.

Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars.

This book discusses the possibility of a homoerotic interpretation of Shakespeare's sonnets. It gives minute attention to the text as well as to the extensive scholarship which has generally resisted such an interpretation.