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It was reported that Shakespeare’s parents and kids were illiterate.

Probably “Shakespeare” is always been written wrong, and according to old sources there are 80 more ways to write the surname, and in none of the 6 signs that are stored we can find it spelled as we know.

Shakespeare invented over 3000 words like “fashionable”, or expressions like “all that glitters is not gold”.

According to a legend some unpublished works were buried with him.

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Shakespeare's King John at Royal & Derngate Trailer

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King John

Richard III

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The histories might be more accurately called the "English history plays". The plays dramatise five generations of’ Medieval power struggles. For the most part they depict the Hundred Years War with France, and the Wars of the Roses, between York and Lancaster. They are works of imagination, based very loosely on historical figures.

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Romeo And Juliet TRAILER 1 (2013) - Hailee Steinfeld, Paul Giamatti Movie HD

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Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

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In the years between 1602 and 1608 the great tragedies of William Shakespeare were written. They share the same, basic struggle between good and evil and are marked by a gloomy atmosphere, violence, the loss of humanity in a soul dominated by passion, ambition or pride, and the search of evil for its own sake.

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Shakespeare: LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (Royal Shakespeare Company)

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From the tempest

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Love's Labour's Lost

The Merchant of Venice

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Shakespeare’s comedies are full of fun and irony, they also abound in disguises and mistaken identities with very twisted plot, usually with a happy ending, and often involving marriages between the unmarried characters.
Shakespearean comedies tend to also include separation and re-unification, and a great emphasis on situations.

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"My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" uses the language of irony to satire. The first stanza (quatrain) is based on physical descriptions by using ugly metaphors. In the second quatrain the poet states that he doesn’t find the cheeks of his mistress as soft as rose. Even the smell which comes out from her breath is not as delightful as any perfume. In the third quatrain the poet states that he finds music sweeter than her speech, when she walks, she does not appear like a goddess. Then finally the couplet turns the whole argument upside down when the poet says that his beloved is nevertheless as rare as those beloveds who are “belied” with false, unreal and exaggerated metaphors.

When we analyze the sonnet in a deeper level, it has a philosophical tone that the inner beauty is important than outer beauty.

The tone of the sonnet is satirical as well as philosophical, which is written in iambic pentameter following the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, and gg. The ideas are developed in three quatrains and the conclusion is embedded in a couplet.

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CXXX

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

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The sonnet came from Italy, its invention is attribuited to Iacopo da Lentini. The form reached its greatest expression with Petrarch.

The Italian sonnet consists of an octave and a sestet, the octave generally presents an issue, and the sestet contains the solution, or personal reflections.

The English sonnet is divided into three quatrains and a couplet; the quatrains present a theme and draw a conclusion in the couplet. The traditional subject is love, the lady is phisically and morally perfect, and her coldness or the fact that she can not be reached drive the poet insane and desperate.
This psycology is expressed through onoxymoron; a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms.

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William Shakespeare was born at Stratfort on Avon in April 1564.
His father was a yeoman, a successful tradesman until he met financial difficulties.
William was the eldest son and he attended the local grammar school which gave him a good base in the use of language.
He married Anne Hathaway at only eighteen, the girl was twenty-six and pregnant with their daughter.

In 1584 he went to London, where he first experienced the playhouse, and his admirable wit soon distinguished him as an excellent writer. When the theatres closed because of the plague, Shakespeare got support from a young nobleman, to whom he dedicated his poems. When the theatres reopened he became the playwright of the most successful company of actors in London. His company built the Globe Theatre, where most of his plays were performed. Between 1590/96 he wrote  historycal dramas, and he put onto the stage ten comedies.
The great tragedies were written between 1595/1605.
He died when he was 52 years old and was buried in the local church, and after his death some of his friends published an edition of thirty-six of the plays in one volume: First Folio.

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Shakespeare's sonnets were written in the 1590s and published in 1609.
The collection includes 154 sonnets in decasyllables. Shakespeare used the English form, and his sonnets can be devided into two sections.

The first is addressed to a "fair youth"; the first part is devoted to the theme of increase, and the second part deals with different topics, like the poet's warnings about the destructive power of time and moral weakness.

The second section is addressed to a "dark lady" who is irresistibly desiderable.

Shakespeare's choiche of addressees completely breaks with the Petrarchan courting tradition.
There is also a reversal of the traditional themes of love sonnets;  those he devoted to a woman are negative and non-conventional.
The situatons suggested in the sonnets are means to explore universal themes such as time, love, death, beauty, and art. They are also unique in the analysis of the distinct elements in emotions and behaviour because Shakespeare's experience as a dramatist had made him concious about the complexity of human feelings.