Shakespeare or Anonymous Playwright?

All my life I have honestly never heard that his works could have been a hoax. His works and overall life had been based on public records. Supposedly being born on April 23, 1564, Shakespeare had a long life of fulfillment ahead of him. Or was it really him? Some articles stated that his works could have been stolen by various individuals either jealous or really competitive as a supposed writer. Though people might say that this legend of a playwright was or could have been a lost figure, here are some facts that caught my eye of the "legend's" life:

- By the time of 1612, Shakespeare had wrote a variety of sub-genres: comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Some of his famous plays include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King's Men, Macbeth, and other famous plays that some go-hard Shakespeare fans know and love.

- Shakespeare's work has made a lasting impression on later theater and literature. In particular, he expanded the dramatic potential of characterization, plot,language, and genre. Until Romeo and Juliet, for example, romance had not been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. Soliloquies had been used mainly to convey information about characters or events; but Shakespeare used them to explore characters' minds. His work heavily influenced later poetry.

Though Shakespeare has been a mystery for all of us to figure out in the future, I would know that the work of this play writer has inspired many poets today in some way and that there will be many more poets to realize what this play writer had done to a forever growing piece of art called poetry.