Vintage Illustration Of Shakespeare And Milton Editorial Image

Young William Shakespeare brought before Sir Thomas Lucy on a charge of poaching. William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world`s greatest dramatist. He is often called England`s national poet and the `Bard of Avon`. It has always been known that Shakespeare was a huge influence on Milton – in his poem On Shakespeare, Milton calls him a “son of Memory” and “great heir of fame”, writing of how “Thou in our wonder and astonishment / Hast built thyself a live-long monument.”