Editing Shakespeare's sonnets (section)

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| name = Shakespeare's Sonnets
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| caption = Thorpe edition of the sonnets (1609)
| author = [[William Shakespeare]]
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| country = [[Kingdom of England|England]]
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| genre = [[Renaissance poetry]]
| publisher = [[Thomas Thorpe]]
| pub_date = 1609
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[[William Shakespeare]] (1565 –1616) wrote [[sonnet]]s on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a [[quarto]] in 1609.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-shakespeares-sonnets-1609|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324075710/http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-shakespeares-sonnets-1609|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 March 2016|title=First edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1609|website=The British Library|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref> However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' and ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]''. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play ''[[Edward III (play)|Edward III]]''.