Who was Shakespeare's favorite writer??

Question

Plz give me any sources u know that tell who Shakespeare's favorite writer(writers) was.

Answer 1

Some say Ovid, based on the number of references to his stories in Shakespearean plays.

The truth of the matter is we don't even know who wrote Shakespeare's plays. One recent book makes a persuasive argument that it was Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. If it were Will Shakspere himself, we know very little about his life (not even how to spell his name), certainly not what he read or when, much less what he liked best.

But IF William Shakespeare was indeed Will Shakspere of Stratford, and IF he went to school there, and IF that school was like others in England at the time, then he did read Ovid in Latin while he was a student there, at about the age of nine or ten.

A recent biography of Shakespeare by Michael Wood (written to accompany his BBC series In Search of Shakespeare) has this to say about his love of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Changes):

"This long poem on the Greek myths was probably Shakespeare's best-loved book. He had other favourites--among vernacular poets he loved Chaucer and had a soft spot for old John Gower--but to Ovid he went back time and again. Here he read the stories of Jason and Medea, of Pyramus and Thisbe and of the siege of Troy with its great heroes Hector, Achilles, and Ulysses. To a child it was perhaps the Tudor equivalent of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter, but demanding a higher and deeper level of engagement . . . ."

Other books that the writer of Shakespearean plays obviously made use of were the Bible, Holinshed's Historie of England, Cinthio's Hundred Stories, and Plutarch's Lives.

Curiously, Michael Wood also speculates that one of Will's friends, influences, and favorite writers may have been Mary Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke. She was a woman of letters, a patron of the arts, and kinswoman of the clergyman poet George Herbert. Her household was a gathering place for the literati of the day. She wrote a version of Antony and Cleopatra which may have been the basis for Shakespeare's play of the same title. Her son, William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, may have been the 17-year-old young man to whom or for whom Shakespeare wrote most of his love sonnets. If so, Shakespeare is referring to her in his Sonnet III:

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime

So, if Wood is right, one of Shakespeare's favorite contemporary writers may well have been this lovely, lively, stately lady!

But unless some other documents show up somewhere, we will never really know for sure.

Answer 2

so little is actually known about Shakespeare, we don't know anything really personal about him. definastly we don't know who or what he enjoyed reading for pleasure.

Answer 3

The anonimous person who wrote half his playworks for him.

Answer 4

himself