“Some are born great,
Some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness
thrust upon them.”
The person who vocalized this very quote was none-other than the famous William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 23rd of April, 1564. Shakespeare was an English dramatist and scriptwriter and is acknowledged to be the most prominent writer in the English literature. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets, such as Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. The sonnets he wrote dealt with matters such as lost love. His early plays were mainly comedies and antiquities. Then he started to write performances in the genre, tragedy, early in the Seventeenth Century.
The writings authored by William Shakespeare has had an impact on English vocabulary. His works contributed to standardizing the English language rules and grammar in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The introduction of new words and phrases had greatly enriched the English language, which made it more expressive and colorful.
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Great post Sherry - have you been to see any of the Shakespeare productions at the Pop up Globe in Ellerslie - they are awesome! My favourite quote is "And all the men and women merely players;
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Hi Ron, me not knowing a lot about Shakespeare and what I am seeing is really new to me. I see he writes plays in a bunch of genre, what genre do you prefer if you had to choose to see? I am familiar of Romeo and Juliet, I didn't it that it was made from him, he is really interesting... Speaking of writing, I also can't believe that his writing made an impact to the English Vocabulary, I wonder if our words which we are speaking is by him, I don't know what words he invented, can you come up with 5 words that are from him, if you can't then you can search it up?
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