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This 13 page paper discusses Shakespeare's sonnets, specifically numbers 18 and 130, with regard to the sexuality found therein. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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another 400, because he created characters with whom we can all identify. Whether we cant make a decision ("Hamlet"), or enjoy watching the antics of a scoundrel ("Henry IV,
I & II"), or have a dysfunctional family ("King Lear"), or fall in love with the wrong person ("Twelfth Night"), someone in Shakespeare has done it before us. Put
believable characters together with gorgeous language and you have works of art that last for centuries. The poems ("Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece") arent as well known,
but are still wonderful examples of his artistry; and the sonnets contain some of the most well-known dialog ever written. In this paper Ill take a textual approach, arguing
that although Sonnet 18 can be read as a poem to a homosexual lover, that interpretation is difficult to prove convincingly and is based largely on the fact that most
of the early sonnets were dedicated to a male patron, believed to be Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. However, we tend to see such things through the eyes
of the 21st century, and put an interpretation on the relationship that may not be justified; in fact, the sonnet is actually more the poets glorification of his own work
as a means of insuring the others immortality than it is an _expression of love. Sonnet 130, however, is to a woman, and the relationship is explicitly sexual.
The two sonnets are sometimes seen as opposites (i.e., one in praise of a beautiful young male lover, the other in praise of a female lover) but the case isnt
convincing with regard to the relationship in the first work. Sexuality in Shakespeare Its no secret that Shakespeare is very bawdy, frequently making sly sexual puns and suggestive remarks
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