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Shakespeare’s works withstand the Another trivia about Shakespearean
test of time? language that could perk up your
Shakespeare’s writings are widely interest is that apart from his
ranged from historical accounts to contribution to the world of English
comedies and tragedies. His plays still Literature, he made some indelible
find an audience because they narrate contributions to the English language
stories of love and envy, all the while too. Shakespeare is credited with
depicting the life in today’s world as inventing more than 3000 words of
well as in the era of the 1500s. Even which more than half of them are still
after more than four centuries later, in use today.
his reflections on the human situation Words like accommodation, aerial,
have lost none of their bearings. amazement, assassination, auspicious,
Present-day artists and writers persist baseless, bloody, bump, countless,
in drawing on his language, imagery courtship, critic, dishearten, dislocate,
and drama for motivation. In other dwindle, eventful, fitful, frugal,
words, it won’t be wrong if we say generous, gloomy, gnarled, hurry,
that Shakespeare is a muse for many inauspicious, have been a gift from
contemporary dramatists and writers. Shakespeare to the English
vocabulary.
Now you may want to read
Shakespearean dramas and plays to
find out where he first used these
words!
Apart from the words, Shakespeare
coined some very famous phrases that
are still in vogue. Phrases like- ‘melted
into thin air’, ‘world is a stage’, ‘wild
goose chase’, ‘star-crossed lovers’ ‘all
In addition to the diverse messages
that glitters isn’t gold’; all find
and various types of plays
mention for the first time in
Shakespeare wrote, his plays were also
truly well-ahead of his time in terms Shakespearean dramas and poems.
Hence it isn’t without reason that
of structure and techniques. In the Shakespeare is referred to as the
majority of his early classical and
Father of Modern English Literature.
Italian-styled comedies, Shakespeare
used double plots and detailed comic
Shakespeare’s texts do indeed present
sequences to keep the audience on
their heels. He also incorporated the many difficulties for contemporary
readers, particularly to Indians and
aspect of comic relief in his plays
citizens of other countries, who do
which were strokes of genius, all the
not have English as the first language.
while also providing the audience with
an unseen sense of engagement The very word ‘Shakespeare’ is
through humour. sufficient to strike trepidation into the
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