William Shakespeare’s Influence on Literature Literature has been a influence on many people throughout the last couple of centuries. It has taken words and put them into books and stories for many people to read and learn about. No one has done more for literature than one of the most influential writers of all time, William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, born April 23,1564, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, has been known to be one of the greatest writers who ever lived. William Shakespeare had no birth records, but records do show that he had been baptized on April 26,1564. Shakespeare had a father named John Shakespeare and a mother named Mary Arden. John Shakespeare, his father, possessed a job as a leather merchant, while …show more content…
Early in his career, Shakespeare was able to attract the attention of Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton, who he dedicated his first and second published poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece”, to. By 1597, Shakespeare had published fifteen of his thirty-seven plays. William Shakespeare’s early plays were written in the conventional style, with metaphors and rhetorical phrases that did not go with the characters or the plot of the story. He became very innovative with the Traditional style that he wrote with, which had a better flow of words and expressed what he always tried to say. William Shakespeare expanded literature with numerous words. He created new words almost all the time and described people and objects in a brand new way. Shakespeare described the extreme beauty of the young adolescent so thoroughly, that it is only a mild exaggeration to say he invented the teenager as they are. William Shakespeare changed so much with his great play, Romeo and Juliet, that so many people know the story of it but have not seen it themselves. This play gave an interpretation of youths falling in love and how age has no effect on true