Question

Many writers were influenced ______ Shakespeare.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Geoffrey Chaucer

Ovid

Michel de Montaigne

Plutarch

Arthur Brooke

William Shakespeare/Influenced by

Shakespeare undoubtedly admired Chaucer works immensely, for he uses several of Chaucer's poems as sources of his plays. Troilus and Criseyde was the primary source of Troilus and Cressida, and the Parliment of Fowles was a source of Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech in Romeo and Juliet.