![]() Shakespeare's sonnets were first published without his authorization, by a local publisher who essentially "pirated" the poems from the poet. Read more about Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton, who some critics have taken to be the "fair youth" of Sonnet 20 and the other sonnets in this sequence. In this portrait, Wriothesley is depicted wearing rouge, lipstick, and earrings, with long, flowing hair, and critics have dated this painting to the time period when Shakespeare wrote his sonnets. View an early portrait of Henry Wriothesley, one possible addressee of Shakespeare's "fair youth" sonnets. Read more about Shakespeare's “fair youth” sonnets, and how they have been interpreted in terms of gender and sexuality, in this essay from the British Library. Learn more about Shakespeare's life-and his life as a poet-in this article from the Poetry Foundation website. Learn more about the potential addressee of "Sonnet 20" in this essay, which includes an analysis of the poem's repetition of the letters "h," "e," "w," and "s"-though to be clues to the "fair youth's" identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() More “Sonnet 20: A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted” Resources. ![]()
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