About the Author

William F. Zak (PhD, University of Michigan) is emeritus professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland. Thinking and writing about Shakespeare’s sonnets has absorbed the greater part of his working energies since his retirement from teaching in 2002. His previous work includes a study of King Lear entitled Sovereign Shame (1984) and The Polis and the Divine Order: The Oresteia, Sophocles, and the Defense of Democracy (1995).