In the preface to the first folio of Shakespeare’s work, his friend Ben Jonson (another poet and playwrite) penned, “To the memory of my beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us.” He refers to Shakespeare as “sweet swan of Avon”.
Why do people have such a hard time believeing Shakespeare wrote his plays? It wasn’t just him - the English Renaissance saw some of the best stuff ever written in English, including Paradise Lost and the King James Bible.