How Did William Shakespeare's Influence Literature

The literature world in the English Renaissance period was brimmed with adventurous stories of chivalrous knights going on epic quests to slay dragons and rescue the princess, gain her affection and skirt off happily ever after, to live their lives in peace. Consequently, this could show how the literature during this time was influenced by the fantasy aspect. More often than not, poems written during this period told of the beauty of a woman or the overall magnificence of nature, often including a lot personal emotions like love and lust, or resentment and melancholy. William Shakespeare, one of the greatest known writers of all time with his infamous works Hamlet and Macbeth, was very influential in the literature world now with his theme

Shakespeare developed his own version of the Sonnet, with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg on an iambic pentameter, consisting of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. Also Sir Thomas Wyatt came up with the Petrarchian Sonnet, eight lines that form an octave and the last six forming the sestet, with the rhyme scheme abba abba cddc ee. Ordinarily, the illustrations during this period varied in theme as Shakespeare often wrote dramatic plays, and less dramatic poems, unlike the Petrarchian sonnet where it often carries the theme of a sorrowful man yearning of an unattainable woman that he desires. “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” was a short poem about a sheep herder that wanted to give this woman anything in the world, and uses a general pastoral theme in his writing, that is used to show the magnificence of nature, or beauty. How the work was written was such an influential aspect of a writer’s life, because people were a lot easier to criticize and could often be shunned or disgraced as a writer after an unpleasant