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Learn how Shakespeare transformed and enriched the English language with his words and phrases. Explore his inventive use of existing words, his coining of new words, and his rhythm of iambic pentameter.
- Old English, Middle English, Modern English
- Shakespeare’s English
- Prose and Verse in Shakespeare’s Plays
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Before exploring the wonderful depths of Shakespeare’s English, it is important to understand what exactly Old, Middle, and Modern English are and when they were/are spoken. Old English is the earliest recorded form of the English language. It was spoken throughout England as well as in parts of Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It first came to G...
The Early Modern English language was around 100 years old when Shakespeare was writing his plays. All major documents were still written in Latin, and over the course of his lifetime, Shakespeare contributed approximately 1,700 to 3,000 words to the English language. Shakespeare had an immense vocabulary that stretches to four times that of the av...
The previous passage is an example of prose dialogue, something that Shakespeare’s characters often speak in. There is no rhyme or meter in the lines. There are moments in which Shakespeare shifts into verse to write dialogue though. This is usually when a member of the upper class, or a noble, is talking. He uses blank verse or unrhymed iambic pen...
Learn how Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English, also known as Elizabethan English, and how it differs from Old, Middle, and Modern English. Explore examples of Shakespeare's vocabulary, figurative language, and verse techniques in his plays.
Summary. Elizabethans often talked of going, not as now, to ‘see’ a play, but to ‘hear’ one. As the modern theatre director Richard Eyre has put it, ‘the life of the plays is in the language, not alongside it, or underneath it. Feelings and thoughts are released at the moment of speech.’.
Shakespeare's Words. William Shakespeare used more than 20,000 words in his plays and poems, and his works provide the first recorded use of over 1,700 words in the English language. It is believed that he may have invented or introduced many of these words himself, often by combining words, changing nouns into verbs, adding prefixes or ...
An article that explores how Shakespeare's language reflects and shapes the cultural scene of language in his time. It analyzes language change, word coinage, and miscomprehension sequences in The Merry Wives of Windsor and other plays.
15 de dez. de 2009 · Summary. TONGUE. In ‘Shakespeare's talking animals’, Terence Hawkes makes a fundamental claim about language and Shakespeare's work. The plays, he says, contain ‘ideas about language’ which we neglect ‘because we are anaethetized to them by our own literacy’ (Hawkes: p. 69, this volume).
Learn about Shakespeare's language through the analysis of millions of words written by his contemporaries. The project uses a new method of language research – the corpus approach – to reveal what Shakespeare’s language meant to the Elizabethans.
