Probably with a quill pen on paper.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets and poems.
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
He didn't write Petrarch's sonnets. He didn't write Edmund Spenser's sonnets. He didn't write Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets, and especially not "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
This is akin to asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Shakespeare is the second-most famous writer of sonnets in the world (after Petrarch).
He wrote sonnets.
Yes he did, he wrote Sonnets which are considered poetry.
A young man and a dark lady.
Shakespeare did not title his sonnets.
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
Shakespearean sonnets - sonnets by Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sonnets was created in 1609.