William Shakespeare

William shakespeare wrote aroundh ty seven plays, mostly on his own. He also wrote two long poems and a collection of a hundred and 54 short poems called sonnets. His writing career was relatively brief, but highly successful commercial when it was over. There are numerous conspiracy theories about whether the person we know as william sh Shakespeare really was the person who wrote the plays. They say they are not true - nor do most serious shakespeare historians. Even if it were true, what we know is that the plays and the poems were written by the same person.

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