William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet. He was recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all drammatists. Shakespeares plays use poetic and dramatic means to create a unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of vocal expressions and actions is recognized as a singular achievement, and his use of poetry within his plays to express the deepest levels of human motivation in individual, social, and universal situations is …showed first 75 words of 275 total…

…showed last 75 words of 275 total…Venus and Adonnis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). In 1609, he published his Sonnets which established his reputation as a gifted and popular poet of the Renaissance. The Sonnets descirbe the devotion of a character, often himself, to a young man whose beauty and virtue he praises and to a mysterious and faithless dark lady with whom the poet is infatuated. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collabortated on.