Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Theatre of the United Kingdom
The reign of Elizabeth I in the late 16th and early 17th century saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. Perhaps the most famous playwright in the world, William Shakespeare, wrote around 40 plays that are still performed in theatres across the world to this day. They include tragedies, such as "Hamlet" (1603), "Othello" (1604), and "King Lear" (1605); comedies, such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1594—96) and "Twelfth Night" (1602); and history plays, such as "Henry IV, part 1—2". The Elizabethan age is sometimes nicknamed "the age of Shakespeare" for the amount of influence he held over the era. Other important Elizabethan and 17th-century playwrights include Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster.