We don't really know much about what Shakespeare read, but the stories in his plays come from popular novels of the time. Romeo and Juliet comes from a verse-novel by Arthur Brooke, Romeus and Juliet.
Shakespeare also seems to have loved history books. His history plays are based on Holinshed's Chronicles, Hamlet is from Saxo Grammaticus' History of Denmark, and his Roman and Greek plays come from the Greek historian Plutarch.
Shakespeare was very familiar with contemporary dramatists - as you would expect. His favourite Latin poet seems to have been Ovid (there was a famous translation by William Golding, which everybody loved), and among English poets he seems to have a soft spot for Chaucer and Gower.
Shakespeare never says anything nice about Edmund Spenser (who was the big cheese in English poetry around Shakespeare's time). I think I agree with him there.
Only William Shakespeare could read and write in his family.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
We have no idea what Shakespeare liked to do when he was a child.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
William Shakespeare; it is a line from Hamlet's soliloquy in the play 'Hamlet' (act 3, scene 1).
Quaid e Azam loved to read William Shakespeare. He used to read loud drama scripts of William Shakespeare.
Only William Shakespeare could read and write in his family.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
We have no idea what Shakespeare liked to do when he was a child.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
Quaid e Azam loved to read William Shakespeare. He used to read loud drama scripts of William Shakespeare.
It is unlikely that William Shakespeare read a novel. The novel form had not really been developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and there were not very many works around which you might call novels. Shakespeare was a voracious reader, but he read history books, poetry and stories.
William Shakespeare; it is a line from Hamlet's soliloquy in the play 'Hamlet' (act 3, scene 1).
Shakespeare had no middle name. His name was just William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare was an actor, poet and playwright.
William Shakespeare affected history by being a pioneer in his writing, and producing such a large amount of plays. Many of plays are considered classics today, and are read in schools.
A teacher whose name we do not know.