Practice question · Estimate
Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto collects the sonnets in one sequence. Estimate how many it contains.
Estimate on a scale from 100 sonnets (100) to 200 sonnets (200).
Hints
- Rather more than a hundred and fifty.
- One hundred and fifty-four.
Show the answer
154 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
154. The sequence is usually divided into the first 126, addressed to a young man, and the remainder concerning the "dark lady", a division the quarto itself does not mark, and which four centuries of readers have argued about.
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