Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private FriendsIntended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to Shakespeare's Sonnets. "His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." That's how Shakespeare's Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet with a penchant for irreverent fun getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted