William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a famous playright who lived from April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616. Many of his plays are very well known, such as Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and many more.

Innocents Lost
It turns out that when he wrote Romeo and Juliet, he used a quill pen made out a phoenix feather. This had the effect of making the two stars of the story relive their lives over and over again. Romeo and Juliet met and married at least a dozen times over four hundred years. When Elise Rothman had Phoebe Halliwell, one of the Charmed Ones, doing a publicity stunt for The Bay Mirror where she married off dozens of couples, they approached her, hoping that having a Charmed One marry them would end the cycle that William Shakespeare accidentally started with his phoenix quill pen.