"WHY IS SHAKESPEARE REGARDED AS THE GREATEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE,
             AND WHAT IS IT ABOUT HIM AND HIS WORK THAT DISTINGUISHES HIM FROM THE REST"
             In the process that it took to choose the topic, which I was supposed to write about, I had a couple of choices that I could've written about. Maybe Antigonê and Oedipus, or maybe another poet or poem that was discussed in class, but I couldn't think of anything that I could write five pages about or anything that I would enjoy learning and writing about, as much as Shakespeare. I believe that we only covered one of Shakespeare's poems in class, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?," and I know that I may have read the poem before in high school, maybe like some others in the class, but I believe that everyone knew the poem and they knew Shakespeare wrote it before anyone could look in the book, unlike most of the other poems that we covered. That is one example of how well known his work is over other poets, to where a regular college student would recognize his work over others. I feel that one day I would like to be great, maybe not in poetry and drama, but great in some area of life. I believe that to achieve greatness, it would be in my best interest to learn about great people of the past, so that I may fully understand how one becomes great in the present. Shakespeare was a great writer, in the minds of everyone who studies poetry and drama, and even those who don't.
             William Shakespeare (1564-1616) lived and died in England. He was probably a normal person and probably educated at a local grammar school. He was married at eighteen to a twenty-six year old woman. Marring a woman eight years your senior maybe a little awkward now, but maybe not in those days, so he has yet to show any genius-like qualities. He moved to London at the age of twenty-four with a wife and children, and by the time he was twenty-eight, he had...