Yet, the author of the Sonnets at times is clearly much older and anticipating his own imminent death.

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If Shakspere of Stratford truly was the famous author of the Sonnets, why would he think his name would be buried with his body?

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In the sonnets and the plays there are frequent references to events that are paralleled in the life of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.

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The scholarly consensus today holds that most of the Sonnets were written in the 1590s, when Shakspere of Stratford was in his late 20s to late 30s, a relatively youthful age even in Elizabethan times.

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No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights.

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Sadly, much of this song is way beyond our typical hearing range, but with a little editing (read, slowing down) some of the squeaky-sonnets have been made audible.

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When run on a laptop, those ones and zeros were interpreted as the original audio clip, sonnets and other items.

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Then in sonnets and poems as the legends of life unfold.

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Poets have long extolled the benefits of constraint on their craft (Shakespearean sonnets pack a lot of punch with iambic pentameter).

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