Truth So Foul a Lie: Sonnet 152

52 Weeks of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Week 22

For this week’s entry in my 52 Weeks of Shakespeare’s Sonnets series, I read Sonnet 152 through a contemporary lens. The poem is often understood as an intimate, toxic exchange between two lovers. Alongside that reading, I ask what happens if we allow the sonnet’s language to operate at a different scale, if we were to open the bedroom door.

What emerges…