He probably attended the local grammar school and may have studied there until the age of sixteen, during which time he would have received a thorough grounding in the Latin classics. Details of Shakespeare’s early life are conjectural, since no records exist. William Shakespeare’s exact birthdate is unknown, but he was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a glove maker and wool merchant, and his wife, Mary Arden, the daughter of a prominent landowner. These include the appreciation of beauty and the longing to make it permanent affirmations of the transcendent power of art and emotions ranging from elation to jealousy, guilt, forgiveness, sorrow and desire. Sustained meditations on the human emotions and aspirations aroused by intense love.
Perhaps more important than trying to identify any historical characters that Shakespeare may have had in mind is to appreciate the sonnets as Attempts to identify the “Dark Lady” have proved fruitless the “Rival Poet” may have been Shakespeare’s contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, but this cannot be known for certain. Other characters who appear in the sonnet sequence are the poet’s mistress, a dark woman who seduces the poet’s friend, and a rival poet, who competes with the poet for the friend’s attention. The young man is unnamed, but many scholars believe he may have been Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated his long poem, Venus and Adonis, in 1593.
The collection as a whole appears to tell a story, of the love of the poet for a young man of great beauty and high rank, and the frustration and anguish, as well as the joy, the poet experiences as a consequence of his love. Probably written in the early to mid-1590s, when the sonnet was a fashionable literary form, these poems are generally regarded as the finest sonnet sequence in the English language. The sonnet is one of a collection of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare that were first published in 1609. However, although the poet can do nothing to prevent this, he defies time by asserting that the friend will live forever through his verse. Eventually, time will also destroy the poet’s beautiful young friend. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 19 is about the destructive power of time which consumes everything in its path.
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