Shakespeare An Influence

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y Lexical Firsts: introduction of vocabulary words

y Idiomatic expressions

y Grammatical Conversions/anthimeria: changingnouns into verbs, verbs into adjectives, connecting

words never used before, adding prefixes and suffixes

y Diverse Hyphenations



In all of his work (the plays,the sonnets and the narrativepoems) uses 17,677 different words: Of those, 1,700 wereShakespeare words - words

first used by Shakespeare.



For then the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artistand unread, The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin. --

Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.

Whether I in any just term am affin'd To love the Moor. --Othello, i. 1.

If partially affin'd , or league'd in office, Thou dost delivermore or less the truth, Thou art no soldier. -- Othello, ii. 3.

By the condensedly framed word "affin'd," Shakespeareexpressess, in the first of the above three passages, 'unitedby affinity;' in the second 'bound by any claim of affinity;'and in the third 'swayed by any link of affinity.'



Shakespeare framed the word "co-mart," to express 'jointbargains,' 'compact made together,' in the same mannerthat the words 'co-heiress,' 'co-partner,' &c., are formed,

and as he himself formed the word "co-mates" in thefollowing passage:Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile. -- As You Like It,ii.1.For government, though high, and low, and lower, Put into

parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full andnatural close, Like music. -- Henry V, i. 2.

By the one word "congreeing," Shakespeare expresses'agreeing with itself, in all its parts.'

That, face to face and royal eye to eye, You have congreeted .Henry V, v. 2.

The single word "congreeted" expresses 'greeted each

other,' 'met together.



You are born To set a form upon that indigest, Whichhe hath left so shapeless and so rude. -- King John, v.

7.

And that your love taught it this alchemy, To make of monsters and things indigest Such cherubins as your

sweet self resemble. -- Sonnet 114.

From the Latin word indigestus, 'disordered,''confused,' Shakespeare framed the term "indigest,"

which he uses as a noun, in the first of the abovepassages, to express 'a mass of confusion or disorder,' 'achaos or chaotic state'; and as an adjective, in thesecond of the above passages, to express 'unformed,''shapeless.'



accommodation, aerial, amazement, apostrophe,

assassination, auspicious, baseless, bloody, bump,castigate, changeful, clangor, control (noun),countless, courtship, critic, critical, dexterously,dishearten, dislocate, dwindle, eventful, exposure,

fitful, frugal, generous, gloomy, gnarled, hurry,impartial, inauspicious, indistinguishable,invulnerable, lapse, laughable, lonely, majestic,misplaced, monumental, multitudinous, obscene,palmy, perusal, pious, premeditated, radiance,reliance, road, sanctimonious, seamy, sportive,submerge, suspicious



Arch-heretique heauen-mouing

baby-eyes ill-tunedbare-pickt kindred-action

Basilico-like ore-lookd

break-vow pale-visagd

Canker-sorrow pell-mell

faire-play

giant-world

halfe-blowne



naked truth brave new world

too much of a good thing crack of doom

wear ones heart on ones sleeve devil incarnatebreak the ice full circle

star-crossed lovers heart of gold

jealousy is the green-eyed monster

own flesh and blood forever and a day breathe ones last for goodness sake

catch a cold

its Greek to me

love is blindbrevity is the soul of the wit

come what come may

dead as a doornail



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence#Influence_on_the_English_language_2

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/shakespeare031b.html

http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm

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