Shakespeare wrote 154 love sonnets. Who they are about, no one knows. Also, you can occasionally find sonnets hidden in some of his plays. Each sonnet has 14 lines and ten syllables per line. The...
Some people think that Shakespeare is Italian and that his real name: Michelangelo Florio Crollalanza was later translated to Shakespeare. Crolla= to shake or break, Lanza( lancia )= spear, so...
John Shakespeare (c. 1531 - September 1601) was the father of William Shakespeare. He was a glover. John Shakespeare was a successful and well connected man during the early part of his career. He...
It means to be without a woman. The phrase only appears once in Shakespeare, in an unimportant speech in The Tempest, and is part of some side-imagery not even particularly relevant to the speech, as...