Boyd Tonkin in the Independent writes about Shakespeare’s sonnets being 400 years old. Yesterday, some bloke on NPR was going on about how the sonnets were written by the Bard because he loved some young lord. Then they were stolen by a rogue publisher who printed them without permission. I know copyright laws weren’t truly effective in the Elizabethan times but surely Shakespeare could have had this bloke taken down a dark alley to meet a sharp rapier.