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This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
The word also appears in John Marston's 1605 play The Dutch Courtesan, Act V, Scene II: For grief's sake keep him out; his discourse is like the long word Honorificabilitudinitatibus, a great deal of sound and no sense. [49] In John Fletcher's tragicomedy The Mad Lover of c. 1617 the word is used by the palace fool: The Iron age return'd to Erebus,
Shakespeare added hundreds of new words to the English language, including many commonly used words and colorful expressions that we still use today.
Shakespeare's writing features extensive wordplay of double entendres and clever rhetorical flourishes. [27] Humour is a key element in all of Shakespeare's plays. His works have been considered controversial through the centuries for his use of bawdy punning, [ 28 ] to the extent that "virtually every play is shot through with sexual puns."
Old Capulet is a minor character – a kinsman of Capulet – in the party scene of Romeo and Juliet. Old Clifford , father of Clifford, is a Lancastrian leader in Henry VI, Part 2. Old Gobbo, the blind old father of Launcelot Gobbo, is a clown in The Merchant of Venice. Old Hamlet is the father of the title character in Hamlet. His ghost ...
Back in March, the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) received two books checked out by the family of music legend Morris Perelmuter King in the 1920s and were finally returned to their St ...
The first to use this Italian word was William Shakespeare in Macbeth. Shakespeare introduced a lot of Italian or Latin words into the English language. Assassin and assassination derive from the word hashshashin (Arabic: حشّاشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also hashishin, hashashiyyin, means Assassins), and shares its etymological roots with ...
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted: