Shakespeare In Context by Cherri Thomas

Christopher Marlow

vericherrih2o — 2015-10-01 22:34:22 UTC

Christopher and William both have many similar writings and there are theories stating some of Marlowe's works are attributed to Shakespeare.

Edmund Spenser

keanafletcher1 — 2015-10-02 01:20:37 UTC

Spenser and Shakespeare's poems and such are very much alike because of the rhythms and the moods in them.

Edward de Vere, The 17th Earl of Oxford

vericherrih2o — 2015-10-02 01:29:03 UTC

Some people believe that de Vere wrote many plays and sonnets under the name Shakespeare

John Fletcher

keanafletcher1 — 2015-10-02 01:52:01 UTC

John Fletcher and William collaborated in different Playwrights such as The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613-16) and The Life of King Henry The Eighth.

Robert Greene

keanafletcher1 — 2015-10-02 02:30:18 UTC

Robert Greene was jealous of William Shakespeare and his works and in some of his poems people believed it was an indirect attack on Shakespeare.

Philip Sidney

keanafletcher1 — 2015-10-02 02:30:57 UTC

Shakespeare got inspiration from Philip Sidney after Sidney died in one of his playwrights "King Lear"

John Donne

keanafletcher1 — 2015-10-02 02:33:10 UTC

John Donne and William Shakespeare had many similarities in sonnets and in the topics of their sonnets such as love. In Williams "Sonnet 130" and in Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", the main plot/topic is love.