Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Star performances

All 154 poems are performed by an all-star cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, Stephen Fry and David Tennant. The text highlights line by line as each sonnet is performed.

Background analysis

Learn about the sonnets with the complete scholarly notes from the Arden Shakespeare or read Don Paterson’s fresh and irreverent analysis that brings the poems up to date.

The original publication

Discover Shakespeare’s Sonnets as originally published with a complete facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition, and then find out the backstory by watching previously unseen interviews with leading experts.