Some people may confuse these words as being proper nouns and try to capitalize them using that rule of capitalization. 1  The winter season allows for many snow related sports. 2  My favorite flowers bloom in the spring. 3  This summerâs heat wave lasted over a month. 4  We often take long drives to look at autumn foliage.
Soon, however, he became both an accomplished actor and dramatist. At a final tally, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and five poetry collections, writing 17,677 unique words, with a final word count of over one million. Shockingly, 1,700 of these 17,677 words were invented by Shakespeare. The first time they appeared in print or in speech was in the works of Shakespeare. No author could get away with that today, probably in any language. Some of these words are now so commonplace that itâs a wonder how English speakers got by without them.
While Shakespeare was regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, evidence indicates that both he and his contemporaries looked to poetry, not playwriting, for enduring fame. Shakespeare's sonnets were composed between 1593 and 1601, though not published until 1609. That edition, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, consists of 154 sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is now recognized as Shakespearean. The sonnets fall into two groups: sonnets 1-126, addressed to a beloved friend, a handsome and noble young man, and sonnets 127-152, to a malignant but fascinating Dark Lady, who the poet loves in spite of himself. Nearly all of Shakespeare's sonnets examine the inevitable decay of time, and the immortalization of beauty and love in poetry.