Shakespeare was one of the world's most talented and famous writers. He was a English based writer who started out as an actor and Playwright. His writings escalated to fame quite quickly since the people were interested in the topics he wrote about. The basics of his writings were poetry, tragedies, comedies, and romances. His most famous piece of work was Romeo and Juliet where people of opposing sides fell in love. Shakespeare soon became very influential in the English language creating new words and writing styles. Shakespeare was very creative in his word choice using the traditional writing style to his advantage, in which he wrote so that his words would flow freely in his favor.
Shakespeare's writing consisted of the traditional style but with his own twists, usually he would borrow plots from other writers with the exception of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love Labour's Lost, and The Tempest. He used complex figurative language and included phrases which didn't always necessarily fit with his topic. Shakespeare usually wrote in words which flowed with no rhymes but sometimes incorporated in poetry and simple prose. As stated before... Due to his writing topics being interesting the people of the public circulated due their popularity of interest.
Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 - (Recording)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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