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| Sonnet 15 A Day in the Park This is a poem with many references to rural England. Not unusual for a Londoner like Shakespeare - there were fields of sheep on the Southbank not far from the Globe Theatre, but he was also brought up in the countryside of Stratford. It is a mournful poem - full of warnings for the 'beautiful young boy' to whom Shakespeare was so infatuated. The boy seemed to be keeping bad company - possibly drinking and 'wenching' but more dangerously associating with the wrong political company. There is also some evidence that the boy may have been involved in political plotting against Elizabeth. Whatever it was the older Shakespeare seems to have taken great exception to it. HTML Comment Box is loading comments...
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