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====**One of the most well known and commonly studied play writers in the history of Literature is William Shakespeare. Check out some of these fun facts to remember so you can be Shakespeare savvy! **====

====Many folks wonder how many plays did Shakespeare actually write... well wonder no more. ==== Shakespeare wrote and completed 38 plays, however "recent claims have been made for King Edward III and some scholars would include part of Sir Thomas More, Another play, Cardenio, has not survived. Counting this play, the known total is thirty nine."

Not only did Shakespeare write plays, he also was the originator of the Shakespearen Sonnet! Components and Details of a Shakespearen Sonnet:

"Sonnets are fourteen-line lyric poems, traditionally written in iambic pentameter - that is, in lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable, as in: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?". Sonnets originated in Italy and were introduced to England during the Tudor period by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Shake-speare followed the more idiomatic rhyme scheme of sonnets that Sir Philip Sydney used in the first great Elizabethan sonnets cycle, Astrophel and Stella (these sonnets were published posthumously in 1591). Sonnets are formal poems and consist of 14 lines (3 quatrains and a couplet) The difference with Shakespearen Sonnets is at the end of the sonnet where the usual ryhming couplet is included."

For more facts like these on Shakespeare check out the following sites:

William Shakespeare Info Folger Shakespeare Library