Interpretation over William Shakespeare's sonnets is so controversial that many scholars have long debated whether it is based on the homosexuality or males' friendship over centuries.(Alexander) In the early 17th, people who first read the sonnets of Shakespeare were shocked, because the 126 of 152 sonnets were about his love for a beautiful man, not a woman. Some scholars argue William Shakespeare was just intending to convey his spiritual love between male friends, while others insist that he
eternal loneliness. Shakespeare’s use of disguise throughout, masks a multitude of underlying problems, some of which remain unresolved even at the play’s end. Cross dressing was a favoured plot device used by Shakespeare within his comedies, as it successfully creates humour for the audience, due to the confusion and uncertainty the interwoven plots create. It features in The Merchant of Venice( Portia and Jessica) and As You Like It (Rosalind), along with Twelfth Night. However, Shakespeare
The Using of Simile and Metaphor in Shakespeare Sonnets (Scope of Study: Sonnet 73, 116, and 130) Introduction Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets whose themes are focused on homosexuality between Shakespeare and one young man. These can be divided four parts. The poems which Shakespeare recommends that one young man gets married soon (sonnets 1-17), the poems which Shakespeare expresses his love for one young man (sonnets 18-126), the poems which Shakespeare expresses about a lady who is called “Dark