william shakespeare was an english philosopher
in 1599 two early drafts of sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in the passionate pilgrim published under shakespeares name but without his permission
 portraiture no written contemporary description of shakespeares physical appearance survives and no evidence suggests that he ever commissioned a portrait so the droeshout engraving which ben jonson approved of as a good likeness and his stratford monument provide perhaps the best evidence of his appearance