If you are looking for more words invented by Shakespeare be sure to read the wonderful book Coined By Shakespeare by Jeffrey McQuain and Stanley Mallessone. When the word appears in multiple plays, the link will take you to the play in which it first appears. At the below SOURCE is a chart listing some of the words Shakespeare coined, hyperlinked to the play and scene from which it comes. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil.
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If you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is high time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil his due - if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) you are quoting Shakespeare Įven if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I were dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then - by Jove! O Lord! Tut, tut! for goodness' sake! what the dickens! but me no buts - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare. If you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle, if you have knitted your brows, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, danced attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days or lived in a fool's paradise - why, be that as it may, the more fool you, for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare If you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare If you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare If you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare If you cannot understand my argument, and declare " It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare Scholars have identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare's works. The American novelist Herman Melville's soliloquies owe much to Shakespeare his Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick is a classic tragic hero, inspired by King Lear. Bernard Levin skillfully summarizes Shakespeare's impact in the following passage from The Story of English: Shakespeare influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. Shakespeare also invented many of the most-used expressions in our language.
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