Shakespeare was a poet, an actor, a shareholder in his theatre company but, first and foremost, he was a playwright. He composed tragedies, comedies and historical dramas. Shakespeare was also a poet. He wrote 154 sonnets in decasyllables in the 1590s.
William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time as well as the most influential writer in the history of the English language. He originated hundreds of words and phrases that English speakers use to this day
