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queenofhistoricalfiction 's review for:
Shakespeare's Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
3.5/5 stars. Five stars to Shakespeare’s beautiful prose but I have a problem with his view on women. I know this was written in a very different time period, but it still irks me so much of his view of his black-amore lady. At first, he writes from the classic viewpoint that women are there to marry, have children and pass their lingering beauty onto their children. That it is wrong for a woman to waste her beauty, her youth on spinster hood. He also goes on to talk about that although his lady can write it will never compare to what a man can do himself. Later his poems turn sad about his son’s death, and then further on how he is growing old and how his love spites him for other male suitors. I love Shakespeare most times especially with his delicious and tragically written plays but I still can’t stand his image on the ideal woman and that of many men from this period. My inner feminist just says no.