The following text is famous English playwright and poet William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, first published in 1609. Who are the most likely primary and secondary audience groups for this text?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Who are the most likely primary and secondary audience groups for this text?
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primary audience = a love interest or friend Shakespeare refers to in the sonnet; secondary audience = all of the companies that published Shakespeare’s works


primary audience = any reader of the poem; secondary audience = the company that published the sonnet in 1609


primary audience = a love interest or friend Shakespeare refers to in the sonnet; secondary audience = any reader of the poem


primary audience = fans of William Shakespeare; secondary audience = the person mentioned in the poem