Shakespeare's Legacy
Shakespeare, being a genius in literature and english, still influences our media and entertainment with his plays.
Broadway, television programs, and movies would not be what they are today if it hadn't been for this great man's legacy.
Popular Phrases contributed by Shakespeare
Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice)
To be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)
To beggar description (Antony and Cleopatra)
We have seen better days (As You Like It)
A blinking idiot (The Merchant of Venice)
Brave new world (The Tempest)
Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)
Cruel to be kind (Hamlet)
A dish fit for the Gods (Julius Caesar)
He hath eaten me out of house and home (Henry IV Part 2)
Foregone conclusion (Othello)
Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It)
Neither rhyme nor reason (The Comedy of Errors)
Short shrift (Richard III)
Sterner stuff (Julius Caesar)
Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
A tower of strength (Richard III)
Wild-goose chase (Romeo and Juliet)
Words Shakespeare contributed
accused
addiction
alligator
amazement
anchovies
assassination
backing
bandit
bedroom
bump
buzzers
courtship
critic
dauntless
dawn
design
dickens
discontent
embrace
employer
engagements
excitements
exposure
eyeball
fixture
futurity
glow
gust
These are but a few of all the words he has contributed to english today...
