This volume presents the major translation of Shakespeare's sonnets, complete with critical notes and explanatory commentary. For the first time, it makes Georges' translation efforts comprehensively understandable, providing both readers and scholars with a new access to the text and its origins. Shakespeare's poems confront us here "in a simultaneously terrifying and enchanting strangeness," as Friedrich Gundolf puts it. Even Georges' contemporaries recognized that the adaptations not only capture "the spirit," "the music," and the "principle of form" of Shakespeare's artworks but also "embody" them. This translation work is also central to Georges' own oeuvre, as it is closely linked to his program of celebrating a "world-creating power of trans-gender love.".