Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

William Shakespeare’s sonnet 71 is part of a series of 154 sonnets, whose primary source is a quarto published in 1609 titled “Shake-speare’s Sonnets”. This poem belongs to the “Fair Youth” sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.

William Shakespeare was born on 15 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and he died on 23 April 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, at the age of 52.

Playwright, poet, and actor, Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His works include some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and 3 long narrative poems. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (or romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.

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