Shakespeare's Sonnets Freshly Phrased

timeless verse retold for modern readers

Plot

In this unique volume, you can fully enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets, classic poems now newly rephrased for modern readers by Joseph Gallagher. Although straight forward in some respects, these remarkable works can be challenging thanks to four centuries of vocabulary and stylistic changes, Featuring the enduring themes that have made them so beloved—such as inner and outer beauty, love and friendship, decay and death, absences, and rivalries—this updated version retains the essence of the original edition as the Bard intended it.