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The Globe STILL EXISTS...sort of, well, not the ACTUAL, FIRST Globe...BUT and exact replica!

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The Globe STILL EXISTS...sort of, well, not the ACTUAL, FIRST Globe...BUT and exact replica!

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The Folger Shakespeare Library has 82 copies of the First Folio, all of which were collected by the library's founders, Henry and Emily Folger. Learn more about our First Folios, how they were acquired, and how they still provide inspiration and lead to new discoveries.

Imagine what it was like to buy the First Folio or to leaf through it when it was brand new. You would have been one of the first people in the world to read some of Shakespeare's plays. Just like an early reader, explore some of the First Folio's pages, including a playful introduction by Heminge and Condell, famous lines from a few of Shakespeare's plays, and common phrases that we use today.

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The Folger Shakespeare Library has 82 copies of the First Folio, all of which were collected by the library's founders, Henry and Emily Folger. Learn more about our First Folios, how they were acquired, and how they still provide inspiration and lead to new discoveries.

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Shakespeare: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

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Shakespeare: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

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He wrote 154 sonnets, 38 plays and 2 narratives. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Hamlet and Macbeth are amongst his most famous work. He wrote about issues that are apparent in society which also include tragedies and comedies.

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Crash Course Theater
Shakespeare's tragedies...were tragic. But they had some jokes. They also changed the way tragedies were written. Characters like Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear had tragic outcomes, but they were sympathetic characters in a lot of ways. This was a big change from the way Seneca and the Greeks wrote tragedies, and it caught on.

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Crash Course Theater | Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson | Episode 15

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Crash Course Theater Shakespeare's tragedies...were tragic. But they had some jokes. They also changed the way tragedies were written. Characters like Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear had tragic outcomes, but they were sympathetic characters in a lot of ways. This was a big change from the way Seneca and the Greeks wrote tragedies, and it caught on.

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Sir Wills in vented HOW MANY WORDS/Phrases???? 1700 👀👀👀

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Sir Wills in vented HOW MANY WORDS/Phrases???? 1700 👀👀👀

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Words Shakespeare Invented
The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. 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. Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined or adapted, hyperlinked to the play and scene from which it comes. When the word appears in multiple plays, the link will take you to the play in which it first appears. For a more in-depth look at Shakespeare's coined words, please click here.

** Please note that the table below gives both a sample of words Shakespeare coined and words he adapted. For example, "elbow" was a noun before Shakespeare, but he turned it into a verb. There are many books on the subject and etymological dictionaries if you want a list of only words coined. **

For more words that Shakespeare coined please see the Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Dr. Ernest Klein (1966) or Shakespeare-lexicon: A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet by Alexander Schmidt (1902). For words Shakespeare used only once, please see The Once Used Words in Shakespeare by James Davie Butler (1886).
How to cite this article:
Mabillard, Amanda.Words Shakespeare Invented. Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2000. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html >.

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The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. 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.

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It's interesting to reflect on why societies make laws and how the laws they make reflect the values of the time.

The English have always loved making laws and the concept of a body of laws that protects individuals' rights as well as providing a framework for punishing transgressors is one of the things the English transplanted in all the places they colonised in the new world.

In recent years laws have been made in civilized and sophisticated societies to eliminate privilege but there was a time when laws were enacted to protect the privileges of the rich and powerful or to cope with the needs of the less fortunate without too much inconvenience to the rich. Shakespeare would have been very familiar with that.

During Shakespeare's lifetime many such laws were passed and two, in particular, stand out: the Poor Law that set an example to governments who, even until this day, want to push responsibility for the poor on to local communities; and the Sumptuary Laws, that legislated for what people were allowed to own and particularly the types of clothing they were allowed to wear.

The Poor Laws placed the burden of providing for the poor squarely on the shoulders of the local communities. The local authorities then developed the system of workhouses funded by charities. In the twenty-first century in Britain the main political parties compete with each other in their promises to eliminate poverty. However, they still make the local communities responsible for providing for the poor.

The Sumptuary laws are something alien to the twenty-first century mind. They applied to food, drink, furniture, jewellery and clothes and who was allowed to own what. They were used to control the population and ensure that everyone stayed in his and her place. There was no interest in the social mobility that modern governments promote. Laws that regulated what you wore ensured that wherever you went your social class could be instantly recognised. Royalty, nobility, wealth, stood out wherever it appeared and if you tried to get above yourself by stepping out of your regulatory types of clothing you could be fined or imprisoned.

Only royalty could wear clothes trimmed with ermine fur. If you were nobility that wasn't royal you could wear only fox or otter fur trimming, and so it went on down the line. It was very detailed and complicated. For example you could wear purple clothes or silk garments only if you were a member of the royal family. You could wear velvet and satin only if you were a top government minister. The different ranks were allowed to decorate their horses, but at different levels of metal -silver gold, etc. Only knights and baron's sons could wear gold or silver coated spurs, swords, rapiers, daggers, or buckles, and the lower ranks' swords would have to be shorter than those of the higher ranks.

It was all very complicated but it meant that no-one could break ranks without breaking the law.

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Social Control & Clothing Laws In Shakespeare's Time✔️

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It's interesting to reflect on why societies make laws and how the laws they make reflect the values of the time. The English have always loved making laws and the concept of a body of laws that protects individuals' rights as well as providing a framework for punishing transgressors is one of the things the English transplanted in all the places they colonised in the new world.