William Shakespeare

I could start by saying when our dear friend Will was born, or everything he did and did not, but I think there is one important thing: what if Shakespeare had never existed?

We all know (as the world in general) about Romeo and Juliet, maybe about Hamlet's quote "to be or not to be", or about the Globe... and everything ends up relating to dear Willy. But what if this great playwright had never put the stereotypes and famous quotes in history? Maybe nothing would have happened: we could have had another typical model to stand for the well-known "Romeo", or tragedies would not be represented with a skull because of the play Hamlet, but maybe with a knife stabbing a heart, or swords crossed (or swords crossed with a skull haha) But anyway, I cannot buy the fact that Shakespeare was that important. Yes, I like his work, I've seen a thousand representations of Romeo and Juliet and like to know about him, his times, etc. But besides all that, I think of William Shakespeare as a very good playwright that was able to become popular by accident. Then, his work started spreading like smoke and everyone soon knew about this guy, or about his work. Only by accident was that the stereotypes we have today are what they are, and the sound to his name is known by most of the people, even though they might not know a thing about him. 

He was born as everyone else, wrote as anyone else could have, and reached fame as everyone else could have. Destiny? I cannot say, but he is a guy that should be very credited for many of the "lettered" world we have today, and after about 400 years after his death, he is still part of our world. So yes, nothing could have happened, but after all, he left his print and is present somehow.