How did Shakespeare write so many plays and poems?

One of the nice things about Shakespeare is that we know almost nothing about his life. We don't even know when he was born. We think that he wrote his 38 plays in a roughly twenty year period of productivity. read more

While William Shakespeare is better known as the greatest playwright that ever lived, he also wrote many sonnets. In total, he wrote thirty-seven plays, 154 sonnets, and five long narrative poems, including "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", "The Passionate Pilgrim", "The Phoenix and the Turtle", and "A Lover's Complaint". read more

Amongst those to raise doubts about the authorship of the plays that 'Shakespeare' wrote, as many would suggest, the author Mark Twain (famed for his books Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer), remarked: "So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life. read more