Sonnets Are For Romantics, Starry-Eyed Lovers And Ardent Hearts. And Shakespeare's Sonnets Are The Best Ever Written. But This Is Why They Are Also For Cynics, For Star-Crossed Lovers And For Those Who Know The Anguish Of Unrequited Love. Some Of Them Are Written To A Young Man, Some Of Them To A Woman. And Although The Poems Are Full Of Mystery - Why Did Shakespeare Write Them, What Was His Sexuality? - Each One Speaks To Us From Across The Centuries Of Love, Hate And The Intensity Of Being Alive.