When did Shakespeare write “Sonnets 1609?”
Studies in Philology, vol. 88, no. 1, 1991, pp. 69--109
Abstract
In the last quarter-century scholars have thrown into considerable doubt many traditional beliefs about the only edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets printed in his lifetime. It is unlikely that, as long supposed, its publisher procured his manuscript or manuscripts from some source other than Shakespeare himself. Correspondingly, the order of the sonnets is likely to be the author’s own.
