Allison Varney and Melanie Kadermas
Plays and Sonnets.
Sonnet's 99 and 126
Francesco Petrarch, 1304-1374, was famous for his sonnets two hundred years before Shakespeare was born.
Sonnets and two long poems. Also he was a actor himelf
The majority of Shakespeare's sonnets were addressed to a young man, often referred to as the Fair Youth, and a woman known as the Dark Lady. The sonnets explore themes of love, beauty, friendship, and betrayal through the relationships with these two characters.
Shakespeare didn't publish any sonnets. He wrote 154 sonnets which were all published during his lifetime but they were never published by him. Two of them were published in a volume called The Passionate Pilgrim by Isaac Jaggard in 1599. All 154 were published in a volume called "Shake-speare's Sonnets" in 1609 by one Thomas Thorpe.
Shakespeare dedicated his two long poems to Henry Wriothesley. The sonnets are dedicated to Mr. W.H. who may or may not be the same person.
Shakespeare helped to create an acting company, two playhouses, over thirty plays and more than a hundred and fifty sonnets.
William Shakespeare, in addition to his work as a playwright, famously wrote a number of sonnets. A sonnet is a style of poetry with strictly regulated rhyme and meter. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EE (where each letter represents a line of poetry, and letters which are the same represent lines which rhyme) He wrote 154 sonnets in total, of which all but two were published in one volume (possibly without Shakespeare's consent). In addition to his sonnets, Shakespeare also wrote a few works of extended verse, such as "Venus and Adonis". In short, the sonnet is the type of poem most famously written by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 28 plays and two long poems (maybe 3, if you count the Turtle and the Phoenix)
Shakespeare's sonnets are divided into 154 poems, typically categorized into two main groups: the Fair Youth sonnets and the Dark Lady sonnets. The Fair Youth sonnets (1-126) are addressed to a young man, expressing themes of beauty, love, and mortality. The Dark Lady sonnets (127-154) shift focus to a mysterious woman, exploring themes of desire and betrayal. Each sonnet follows a specific structure, usually the Shakespearean (or English) form, consisting of three quatrains followed by a final rhymed couplet.
Shakespeare is generally credited with 38 plays, 3 long poems, 154 sonnets, and one or two other random pieces of verse. But these totals can be different in the opinions of different scholars, who argue about some of the more dubious attributions. According to some people who think he was Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford, he wrote more after the time of his death.