Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Loves, Layers, Languages

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Loves, Layers, Languages includes twelve essays on various topics, touching on Shakespeare’s Sonnets in particular and sonnet writing in general. As the editor announces in her Introduction, she succeeded in assembling “internationally highly renowned contributors and specialists in the field of early modern studies”, whose renown is supposed to be reflected in the length of the academic titles, which even include multiple honorary doctorates, added to the respective names in the table of contents in a typical German fashion.