FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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none above the above
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nothing
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admired by poems
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undoubtedly admired Chaucer works immensely, for he uses several of Chaucer’s poems as sources of his plays.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare’s three most likely sources were the Geneva Bible, the Bishop’s Bible, and the Book of Common Prayer. The works prior to 1598 show more influence from the Bishop’s Bible; the works thereafter align more closely with the Geneva Bible.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geoffrey Chaucer influenced Shakespeare mainly by popularizing the English language and iambic pentameter. Before Chaucer, French and Latin were the literary languages used in England. After Chaucer, English became commonly used for literary purpose. This allowed Shakespeare to use English in his plays.
Detailed explanation-3: -But by far the biggest influence on Shakespeare’s own narrative poems is the epic Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid. Metamorphoses was often studied at schools like the one Shakespeare probably attended in Stratford, and Shakespeare demonstrated a deep knowledge of Ovid in his earliest poems.