Introduction

Shakespeare's sonnets were most likely born out of the Elizabethan lockdown, Elizabethan quarantine. This is when we think Shakespeare started writing the sonnets. The first 126 are to a bloke, and the first 17 are basically convincing him to procreate. Now when you get to Sonnet 127 or so onwards to the end of the 154 they're preoccupied with a dark lady,. A raven with black eyes, that could potentially be Shakespeare's mistress.