William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He's known as the greatest writer in the English language. He was born around April 23, 1564. He's known worldwide for his works like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and his sonnets. He wrote plays that embody most of the human emotions and conflicts. He died about 400 years ago but his works are still in use in schools and people worldwide. “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.” A quote taken from one of the many sonnets that Shakespeare wrote. A sonnet is a poem of expressive thought or idea composed of 14 lines, each of ten syllables long. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is a line from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can see there are only ten syllables, as the definition of sonnet implies. It may have two different kinds of rhyme scheme: English or Italian. The English rhyme scheme structure is ab, ab, cdcd, ef, ef, gg. Yet the Italian rhyme scheme structure is abba, abba, cdecde. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets cover a diverse amount of themes. Some of them include love, beauty, the passage of time, and mortality. His first 126 sonnets are for a young man who is unknown. The other 28 dedicated to a woman whose identity is also hidden. …show more content…
John is a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress. He had five siblings. His two older sisters Joan and Judith, and his brothers Gilbert, Richard and Edmond. William married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18, and she was 26. Anne was from Shottery, a small village a mile from Stratford where William lived. When they got married Anne was pregnant. They had three children Susanna, the first born, and Hamnet and Judith, the twins. Hamnet died at the age of eleven of unknown