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William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare is arguably the most well known poet from the days of the Early era of Modern English. Shakespeare has written some of the most well known plays and stories in the history of the English Language.
Shakespeare's legacy has lasted throughout the ages and as a result many schools around the world still study some of his plays including:
Shakespeare's plays last the test of time mainly because the plots are all largely universal, for example, the love story in Romeo & Juliet has lasted throughout the ages because love and conflict always seem to go hand-in-hand. Shakespeare also engages the audience in his plays because of his brilliant use of his onstage features, for example:
These are but a few of Shakespeare's clever onstage and persuasive techniques used to encapsulate the attention of the audience. Many of the sayings that are now used in English came from the writings of William Shakespeare, some of the most well known sayings that you may have though were fairly recent in origin actually trace back to Shakespeare's plays. Some of these sayings are:
There are also a great many individual words that the Modern English has thanks to the writings of William Shakespeare, most of the words listed below are actually still in use today.
Many of us use these words sometimes on a daily basis without ever realising that they are actually all derived from the works of William Shakespeare. To make matters a little bit more intriguing some of the words the Shakespeare invented have completely changed meaning as well, for example: The word "cold-blooded" originally meant "lack of emotion" and has since changed to either mean literally cold-blooded (as in reptiles) as well as in death i.e. murdering someone in cold-blood (killing a defenseless person) |