Contents Introduction 2

The purpose and tasks of the course work. The purpose of the work is to provide general information about Shakespeare's sonnets. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set:
- To show William Shakespeare as a great poet and his poetic world
- To study the personal life of the author and the relationship of his life to the sonnets
- Studying the literary activity of the famous English sonnet writer and playwright V. Shakespeare, analyzing his sonnets. To achieve this goal, several sonnets of the poet are studied.
The object of the coursework: Shakespeare's sonnets.
Research methods. Comparative and stylistic methods were used in this qualification work.
Scientific novelty of the course work. We studied W. Shakespeare as a sonnet writer, his work as a sonnet writer is very famous. The following results of the topic show its scientific innovation: it was found that there is a difference between the sonnets of Shakespeare and Petrarchan, the use of the Latin language was studied, and the contrast between colors, as the contrast between the youth's fairness and blackness described. Black woman in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Theoretical and practical importance of course work. The result of the qualification work may be necessary in the study of the peculiarities of Shakespeare's sonnets and in the comparative analysis of texts in Old English and Modern English. Theoretical information about Shakespeare's sonnets. Construction of the qualification paper.
CHAPTER I W.Shakespeare’s life and career
This chapter aimed at studying W.Shakespeare’s autobiography and literary career. This chapter begins with the general characteristics of English literature at the end of XVI^th and the beginning of XVII^th century, the period in which the writer lived and created his works. Shakespeare lived in the Renaissance period. It was a cultural artistic movement in England. XVI^th century marks the flowering of the renaissance. Major representatives of renaissance period are the following Francis Bacon, John Donne,Thomas More,Shakespeare and others.A poet and playwright William Shakespeare is the favorite author of millions of readers all over the world. No other writer's plays have been produced so often and read so widely in so many different countries. He had a greater influence on the world literature than any other author.²
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the XVI^th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the XIX^th century. In the XX^th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.