who wrote the first?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Leir of Britain
 Geoffrey of Monmouth
shall i compare thee to a summer's day thou art more lovely and more temperate meaning UNANSWERABLE what is this sonnet? Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet.  The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. who wrote it? William Shakespeare who is he? He  was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. where is he from ? Stratford-upon-Avon name few dramas that he has done? "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" what is the second about? It is about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. is this theme borrowed from somewhere? Yes,  "Romeo and Juliet" borrows from a tradition of tragic love stories dating back to antiquity. One of these is Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" what is the fourth play about? King Lear tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in a fawning and obsequious manner. any books associated with it? Leir of Britain, "The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande"
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Leir of Britain [SEP] Introduction
Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century "History of the Kings of Britain". According to Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir's reign would have occurred around the 8th century BC, around the time of the founding of Rome. The story was modified and retold by William Shakespeare in his Jacobean tragedy "King Lear".