Having a few cold ones with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.

[Aristus]

16. It is the East. And Juliet is the sun.

It's a metaphor. Get it?

Truth is, Will never liked comparing women to the sun, or to a rose, or anything else obvious like that. He recommends the Sonnets to you. His descriptions of The Dark Lady are not necessarily flattering. Talk to Will about beauty, and he won't talk about how radiant, or entrancing, or spell-binding it is, but about how brief it is. How quickly youthful beauty turns to the decay of old age. He's kind of a buzzkill on the subject. But, as always, an eloquent buzzkill:

"Come kiss me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure."