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What do you think William Shakespeare would think of 21st-century English?

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What do you think William Shakespeare would think of 21st-century English?

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I think Shakespeare, at first, would had a lot of problems trying to understand 21st-century English because of the huge amount of technical and scientific terms, not to mention vocabulary from many other cultures. But because he was so creative, I'm sure he would find the situation amusing and he would write a play about this "crazy invasion".

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Finally, I am sharing a short Monty Python's sketch.

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Scenes From Monty Python 's Life Of Brian

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

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Opinions regarding Shakespeare's impact on the English language

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Opinions regarding Shakespeare's impact on the English language

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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 Englishlanguage. For example, without even realising it, our everyday speech is full of wordsand phrases invented by Shakespeare. He was able to do that because English was changing as people modernised it in their normal workaday speech.

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A British politician and author`s opinion

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A British politician and author`s opinion

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That ability is easier to identify than to explain. It lies in the way Shakespeare’s words seem peculiarly apt to our circumstances. The same passage can speak to us in different, even contradictory, ways at different moments in our lives. How this sorcery works, I have no idea, and a lifetime of watching the plays has brought me no closer to an answer. (Hannan , par.13).
We quote him, too, whenever we say ‘eyeball’ or ‘torture’ or ‘moonbeam’ or ‘fashionable’ or ‘scuffle’ or ‘swagger’ or any of the countless new-fangled words he invented (including, come to think of it, ‘countless’ and ‘new-fangled’).  (Hannan , par.21).

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Samuel Johnson quoted Shakespeare’s work thousands of times in his English dictionary, published in 1755. He noted Shakespeare coined or introduced thousands of words and phrases into the English language. (iWonder)

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What impact do you think William Shakespeare had on the English language and our use of language today?

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What impact do you think William Shakespeare had on the English language and our use of language today?

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William Shakespeare's impact on the English language is very important because he introduced thousands of words and phrases into it, according to Samuel Johnson. Even today, these words and phrases are used by ordinary people, jourmalists, and politicians.

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My favourite quote from Shakespeare’s work

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My favourite quote from Shakespeare’s work

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"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players" As You Like It, (Act 2, Scene 7), William Shakespeare

I like it because I agree with it. Life can be compared with a play. We are the actors, then we play different roles (sisters, mothers, teachers, etc.) depending on the moment. What about the audience? Well, I do not know. The author and the director of the play? I do not know either. It could be that players do not need them,  Maybe we are rehearsing all the time...

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As You Like It, RSC Open Stages, Katie Foster as Rosalind - Part 2.mp4

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I am Katie Foster, a member of Medway Little Theatre in Rochester, Kent. Here I am performing as Rosalind in William Shakespeare's As You Like It, at the Questor's Theatre London, 21st April 2012. This production was played in full as part the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages Project.

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1. iWonder BBC. (n.d.).William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England’s bard. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z8k2p39

2. Hannan, Daniel. (April 14,2014). Shakespeare invented Britain. Now he can save it. Retrieved from  http://www.spectator.co.uk/author/daniel-hannan/

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Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Use of Personification

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The cover image for the free public lecture: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Use of Personification www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/shakespeares-sonnet... This lecture comes as a part of the series of six free public lectures on 'Rhetoric and the Life of Literature': www.gresham.ac.uk/series/rhetoric-and-the-life-of-literat...