They certainly did, Elizabeth Barrett Browning for one.
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."
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
Many authors have and do write sonnets, they do not come from a single source.
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
He wrote sonnets.
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Probably with a quill pen on paper.
This is akin to asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Shakespeare is the second-most famous writer of sonnets in the world (after Petrarch).
His sonnets focused on worldly interests of romance and nature.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets and poems.
Yes he did, he wrote Sonnets which are considered poetry.