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Shakespeare's texts are four hundred years old. The stories they tell are still as exciting and relevant as they were to Shakespeare's audience. When you pick up of one of the texts, though, you may groan and complain that they are too hard and need translating from Old English into Modern English
Shakespeare is probably the most famous of all Englishmen. One of the things he is famous for is the effect he had on the development of the Early Modern English language. For example, without even realising it, our everyday speech is full of words and phrases invented by Shakespeare
In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare. This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare
In many ways Shakespeare is the founder of the modern English that we use. He has enriched the way we speak and understand our language (see Shakespeare's development of modern English). In order to express precisely what he had in mind he created metaphors that so perfectly expressed those
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