rite other books under a pseudonym, but was never able to achieve the fame that he wanted. What is it about Shakespeare that makes people cling to the thought of his?greatness? Even Hollywood seems to hold him up as an amazing person. The movieShakespeare in Love shows him as a romantic struggling with writer’s block until a beautiful girl of noble blood comes into his life. It shows him as being Romeo while Viola is his Juliet and all the while he is writing the play. It does show his flaws but only to add to the drama of the plot of this movie. The love affair with Shakespeare, or the myth of Shakespeare, has to be that people want to believe that someone who came for so little could actually achieve such great success. Shakespeare’s life, work and controversies come together to form our beliefs of who this great writer really was. It does not seem to matter when the controversies are brought up or the fact that we know so little about him. People still love the man who can entertain them almost four thousand years after his death. And he will always remain on that pedestal that he was placed on all of those years ago. Works CitedCampbell, Oscar J. and Quinn, Edward G. The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1834.Gray, Terry A. “1616 Death”. http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/timeline/marriage.htm.Kay, Dennis. William Shakespeare: His Life and Times. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. Lawall, Sarah, et al. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Seventh Edition. Volume One. “The Apology of Socrates”. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1999. McMahon, Robert. “CobblerRob’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” http://www2.crosswinds.net/rapid-city/~cobblerrob/refdesk/Sonnets.txt....
