To start off my theory, I need to acknowledge the standing 'cannon' for Shakespeare's sonnets is that he wrote them as a type of love sequence to an unnamed lover, typically they say a male lover, but this seems entirely inaccurate for the time, and also to Shakespeare's upbringing in a time were sodomy was a crime, adultery was a crime, Christian morals were everything, despite being a protestant man himself, that didn't mean he'd turn his back on the religious ideal that forged his upbringing. Now its true, Shakespeare was human, entirely human, just like you and I, but also Shakespeare was considered a celebrity for his time, he was a playwright, and an actor, if he'd had been having some kind of love affair, someone would have known, or seen something, and probably told Anne, for Shakespeare was a recognizable man, and his wife, and marriage was probably known to everyone who'd known him. contrariwise, if he was having an affair, one could assume that he at least never planned for these Sonnets to be seen; however he handed them out to his closest friends, not something
To start off my theory, I need to acknowledge the standing 'cannon' for Shakespeare's sonnets is that he wrote them as a type of love sequence to an unnamed lover, typically they say a male lover, but this seems entirely inaccurate for the time, and also to Shakespeare's upbringing in a time were sodomy was a crime, adultery was a crime, Christian morals were everything, despite being a protestant man himself, that didn't mean he'd turn his back on the religious ideal that forged his upbringing. Now its true, Shakespeare was human, entirely human, just like you and I, but also Shakespeare was considered a celebrity for his time, he was a playwright, and an actor, if he'd had been having some kind of love affair, someone would have known, or seen something, and probably told Anne, for Shakespeare was a recognizable man, and his wife, and marriage was probably known to everyone who'd known him. contrariwise, if he was having an affair, one could assume that he at least never planned for these Sonnets to be seen; however he handed them out to his closest friends, not something