How did the Renaissance era affect Shakespeare? How did Shakespeare's works affect later culture?

All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players." So go the famous lines from the comedy "As You Like It" by poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The notion that the world that Shakespeare created in the theater was a version of the world in which his audience lived was typical of "reasoning by analogy" a form of logic common during the Renaissance. It was believed that life was ordered in the same way from the largest forms such as the universe to the that of the smallest insect. However, Shakespeare's works were more than mirrors for Renaissance thought. He also influenced the development of that historical epoch