Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets - collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. This book is the 457^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 523^rd most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Shakespeare's Sonnets” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Shakespeare's Sonnets”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1366 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shakespeare's sonnets is on the 523^rd place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 457^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 47 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #818 in January 2014
• Global: #6688 in April 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18433 in November 2013
• Global: #12699 in April 2008

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		94.3638
2	Polish (pl) Sonety Williama Shakespeare’a		78.517
3	Catalan (ca) Sonets de Shakespeare		75.1399
4	German (de) Shakespeares Sonette		54.0977
5	Hungarian (hu) Szonettek (Shakespeare)		47.4239
6	Greek (el) Τα Σονέτα του Σαίξπηρ		36.312
7	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		31.3706
8	Portuguese (pt) Sonetos de Shakespeare		30.1673
9	Dutch (nl) Sonnetten van Shakespeare		29.9667
10	Persian (fa) سونت‌های شکسپیر		28.9192

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shakespeare's Sonnets" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		6 143 429
2	German (de) Shakespeares Sonette		593 999
3	Russian (ru) Сонеты Уильяма Шекспира		548 011
4	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		524 732
5	Spanish (es) Sonetos (Shakespeare)		398 113
6	Chinese (zh) 莎士比亞十四行詩		386 896
7	Czech (cs) Sonety (Shakespeare)		244 728
8	French (fr) Sonnets (Shakespeare)		225 418
9	Polish (pl) Sonety Williama Shakespeare’a		200 798
10	Japanese (ja) ソネット集		187 696

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shakespeare's Sonnets" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		15 041
2	Chinese (zh) 莎士比亞十四行詩		1 010
3	Russian (ru) Сонеты Уильяма Шекспира		996
4	Japanese (ja) ソネット集		856
5	German (de) Shakespeares Sonette		636
6	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		607
7	Bulgarian (bg) Сонетите на Шекспир		593
8	Czech (cs) Sonety (Shakespeare)		536
9	Spanish (es) Sonetos (Shakespeare)		470
10	French (fr) Sonnets (Shakespeare)		387

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shakespeare's Sonnets" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		629
2	German (de) Shakespeares Sonette		115
3	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		71
4	French (fr) Sonnets (Shakespeare)		50
5	Dutch (nl) Sonnetten van Shakespeare		47
6	Polish (pl) Sonety Williama Shakespeare’a		43
7	Spanish (es) Sonetos (Shakespeare)		37
8	Russian (ru) Сонеты Уильяма Шекспира		37
9	Chinese (zh) 莎士比亞十四行詩		32
10	Hebrew (he) הסונטות של שייקספיר		30

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shakespeare's Sonnets" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		3
2	Persian (fa) سونت‌های شکسپیر		1
3	French (fr) Sonnets (Shakespeare)		1
4	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		1
5	Dutch (nl) Sonnetten van Shakespeare		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Sonetos de Shakespeare		1
7	Arabic (ar) سونيتات شكسبير		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Сонетите на Шекспир		0
9	Catalan (ca) Sonets de Shakespeare		0
10	Czech (cs) Sonety (Shakespeare)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shakespeare's Sonnets" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shakespeare's sonnets		775
2	French (fr) Sonnets (Shakespeare)		299
3	Russian (ru) Сонеты Уильяма Шекспира		295
4	Arabic (ar) سونيتات شكسبير		248
5	Polish (pl) Sonety Williama Shakespeare’a		221
6	Portuguese (pt) Sonetos de Shakespeare		176
7	Italian (it) Sonetti (Shakespeare)		166
8	German (de) Shakespeares Sonette		141
9	Japanese (ja) ソネット集		137
10	Dutch (nl) Sonnetten van Shakespeare		132

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سونيتات شكسبير
bg	Bulgarian Сонетите на Шекспир
ca	Catalan Sonets de Shakespeare
cs	Czech Sonety (Shakespeare)
de	German Shakespeares Sonette
el	Greek Τα Σονέτα του Σαίξπηρ
en	English Shakespeare's sonnets
eo	Esperanto Sonetoj de Ŝekspiro
es	Spanish Sonetos (Shakespeare)
fa	Persian سونت‌های شکسپیر
fi	Finnish Shakespearen sonetit
fr	French Sonnets (Shakespeare)
he	Hebrew הסונטות של שייקספיר
hu	Hungarian Szonettek (Shakespeare)
hy	Armenian Շեքսպիրի սոնետներ
it	Italian Sonetti (Shakespeare)
ja	Japanese ソネット集
kk	Kazakh Шекспир сонеттері
la	Latin Carmina (Shakesperius)
nl	Dutch Sonnetten van Shakespeare
pl	Polish Sonety Williama Shakespeare’a
pt	Portuguese Sonetos de Shakespeare
ro	Romanian Sonetele lui Shakespeare
ru	Russian Сонеты Уильяма Шекспира
simple	Simple English Shakespeare's Sonnets
sr	Serbian Шекспирови сонети
sv	Swedish Sonetter
tr	Turkish Shakespeare'in soneleri
uk	Ukrainian Сонети Шекспіра
vi	Vietnamese Các bài sonnet của William Shakespeare
zh	Chinese 莎士比亞十四行詩

Best Rank

Simple English: #18433 11.2013

Global: #12699 04.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #818 01.2014

Global: #6688 04.2009

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