Compare_Contrast_of_Sonnet_18_and_130

Compare/Contrast of Sonnet 18 and 130 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a brilliant English playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare contributed 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long poems to English literature. Shakespeare was born in the year of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He was born at the beginning of the Elizabethan age, a most promising time for poetry, music, and drama. His exact birth date is unknown, but it is traditionally celebrated on April 23. Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564. Baptisms usually occurred within two or three days of a child’s birth. He was the third of eight children born to middle class parents. His father John was a Stratford businessman and prominent community leader. Shakespeare’s mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a local farmer, whose family paid her husband a handsome dowry. Though no school record exists, Shakespeare most likely attended public school like other boys of sonnet, shakespeare, sonnets, two, shakespeare’s, love, 18, lover, 130, plays, both, years, time, playwright, known, different, day, beauty, typical, three, summer’s, school, poetry, perfect, one, mistress’, image, illustrate, great, first, even, english, couplet, church, born, became, april, analogies, year, william, unknown, trinity, tone, throughout, though, third, summer, records, read, published