How did William Shakespeare's creativity vary over time?

Much of the verse in Shakespeare's latter plays is much more complex than in the earlier plays. read more

To add to what Lauren says of this question, one might find not only a merging of form, but a break from form as well. Much of the verse in Shakespeare's latter plays is much more complex than in the earlier plays. read more

William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace each titled one of their works directly from a line in Shakespeare. But perhaps the influence Shakespeare had on Tolstoy’s writing was even more profound, since Tolstoy wrote a whole book about his disdain for the Bard. read more