Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"
What do Shakespeare's sonnets actually say? What can they tell us about the life or character of the man who penned them? Not only romantic and philosophical, the sonnets are erotic, desperate, and often angry, laced with shocking sexual imagery and emotional confession; as a group, they break all conventions of…
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