04/20/17 Shakespeare did write his plays and sonnets. Shakespeare did write his own plays and sonnets. He wrote many plays that are popular today. Shakespeare has always wrote his own plays and there is proof. Shakespeare always loved the theatre, even when he was little. He learned his own are by imitating Oxford and Cambridge men. He always hoped to be like them. He would always practice with them. He said himself when he was little that he and the theatre were born to be together. He then tried it out himself. He wrote two narrative poems. 1593 he wrote Venus and Adonis. In 1594 he wrote The Rape of Lucrece. He wrote them when the London theatre was closed down. He dedicated them to Henry Writhesley. He then waited for it to open back