Procreation sonnets
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term procreation sonnets is a name given to Shakespearean sonnets numbers I to XVII.
They are referred to as the procreation sonnets because they all argue that the young man, to whom they are addressed, should marry and father children, hence, procreate. Throughout the procreation sonnets, Shakespeare usually argues that the child will be a copy of the young man, and he will therefore live through the child.
The actual historical identity of the man to whom they were written is a mystery, but most believe it was Henry Wriothesley (W.H. backwards), or William Herbert. See full article
[edit] External links
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 |
