Renaissance Man is a term used to explain a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different areas. William Shakespeare was a Renaissance Man because he wrote his poetry using the iambic pentameter, wrote many plays with certain poetry tools, and created a skillful language used in his plays and poems. He has popular sonnets in a certain rhythm pattern and thinks precisely of the words that he uses for imagery and sound devices.
He has many famous quotes from his admired works of literature. "To be, or not to be: that is the question," is the opening line of a soliloquy in Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet. “Et tu, Brute?” is a quote from Shakespeare’s tragedy play Julius Caesar meaning “And you, Brutus?” Another quote is from his Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marrage of true minds/ Admit impediments. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds,/ Or bends with the remover to remove.” Shakespeare was a very influential writer and person.
Sources:
Wikipedia. (2011). Sonnet 116. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_116
Wikipedia. (2011). To be, or not to be. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be
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