Two fun facts about Shakespeare:
Shakespeare is a truly remarkable English playwright and poet. When I was reading and researching about Shakespeare this week, I found these two facts really inspiring!
He was a brilliant word-creator who invented over 1700 English words and phrases. Some words and phrases are still used today(such as ‘eyeball’ ‘fashionable’). This fully shows his extraordinary imagination and language talent.
His plays were popular with people of all social classes in his time—nobles sat in the expensive box seats to watch while commoners only paid a penny to stand on the ground!
So now, you see? Shakespeare is kind of a big star at that time. His plays were very attractive, and he created words by himself. We use these words nowadays and we learn and read his plays too!
REFERENCE:
(Oxford English Dictionary)(Shakespeare birthplace trust)
Great post! I really enjoyed reading these facts about Shakespeare. It’s amazing to think that so many words we use every day, like “eyeball,” were invented by him. I had no idea he created over 1700 words—that’s incredible! I also love the image of nobles in fancy seats and commoners standing for a penny. It must have been such an exciting and funny scene to see.
Since you shared a fact on my post, I am also going to share one: Shakespeare never actually published any of his plays himself! Without the efforts of two fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, who gathered 36 of his plays into the “First Folio” in 1623, works like Macbeth and Twelfth Night might have been lost forever. So we kind of owe them a huge thank you!😊