He got most of his ideas from books he had read.
What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare's work address?
Shakespeare was not known for his ideas. He was known for his plays, which were indeed immediately popular.
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From the things and people around him.
He got the ideas for most of his plays from books he read, and this includes King Lear.
It is said that Shakespeare used the writings of Plutarch for ideas for his ancient history plays.
Shakespeare often got ideas from history or he adapted already-written plays.
Shakespeare got most of his plot ideas from books he had read, such as Plutarch's Lives (Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra), Holinshed's Chronicles (the History plays, Macbeth, King Lear), or Brooke's Romeus and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) or earlier plays such as the "Ur-Hamlet" or "The Taming of a Shrew"
We have no record of Shakespeare's early life, and any ideas about what experiences he had and whether they formed his character are complete guesswork.
In Europe of Shakespeare's day, the most respected people culturally were probably the Italians who were ahead of the rest of the continent in embracing Renaissance ideas.
Shakespeare found nature an inspiration, and peoples' different reactions to love and life. While most stories in those days finished with a 'happily ever after,' Shakespeare realised that a total opposite could happen, so Shakespeare explored the many ways a romance story could end.The ideas for Shakespeare's plots were almost all taken from earlier stories, poems or plays. The English histories as well as the semi-historical King Lear and Macbeth were drawn from Holinshed's Chronicles. The story of Romeo and Juliet was from a poem written by Arthur Brooke in 1562. Hamlet was probably based on an earlier play which was itself based on a story by Saxo Grammaticus. We have an alternate Taming of the Shrew which is very similar to Shakespeare's. Roman historians provided the source for Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.Nowadays we tend to think that it was the stories which Shakespeare created, so that he deserves credit for any story of a brother of a king who murders the king and marries the widow. This is not so. Shakespeare created words for these people to say, which words showed them to be much more complex than any characters created beforehand and most created since.Historical Political figures.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most-quoted play by a large margin.