Shakespeare and his Legacy

Introduction

Everyone believes they know of great poets but no one can compare to William Shakespeare. We all have a moment in our life where we may feel emotional and poetic, well that was Shakespeares everyday life. Throughout time we have had many amazing poets, but Shakespeare is arguably the best poet of all time. He was a normal man of his time and went through the black plague, in Europe during his early life, which would kill many families, but luckily his family survived. From his transition of going through a hard early life to his depressing downfall and then a successful adult life Shakespeare has written over 100 plays and sonnets. Even though many people enjoy his plays and sonnets there are critics who have created many controversies of believing that Shakespeare hasn't written any of his plays and that he has rewritten old plays from other people. Even with all of these false accusations, Shakespeare's legacy is still around.

Early Life

William Shakespeare's early life is very unclear to many people, but his legacy was still great. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford- upon Avon, England. Shakespeares exact birth date is unknown but we celebrate it on April 25. We know he was baptized in Stratfords Holy Trinity Church in 1564. They choose that day because its a holiday in England filled with play acting and parties which seemed fitting to honor their greatest playwright ( Who Was William Shakespeare? pgs 6-7). Shakespeare was born into a world where books had to be rewritten to be coped and most people learned to read or write like that. Shakespeare became interested in plays by learning from plays and folktales on the street. William never finished school so most people believe that is why he didn't write ...

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...ed the entire time he would write plays. When he left acting was cut off and people wouldnt start to act again until after he returned. This is why people called Shakespeare the best author of all time. Even though all of Shakespeare's plays can be considered masterpieces there were people who would doubt his work. They would create controversies on whether he wrote his work or whether he was taking credit for what others were doing. Even if there are the people who believe in this we have no proof and we don't know what happened during that time so we can believe what we want but we will never know.

Works Cited

Claybourne, Anna, and Rebecca Treays. The Usborne World of Shakespeare: Internet Linked. London: Usborne, 2005. Print.

May, Robin. Who Was Shakespeare?: The Man, the Times, the Works. New York: St. Martin's, 1974. Print.

PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.