William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is perhaps one of the greatest playwright and poet to ever live. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire shakespeare wrote his earliest play in around 1589. During his time of playwriting William shakespeare developed a new kind of verse drama. Ranging from comedies such as Much Ado About Nothing, to bloody tragedies such as Macbeth. These new discoveries explored a whole new range of human feelings and emotions. This is what makes shakespeare’s plays as relevant and interesting today as they were four hundred years ago. William Shakespeare had a huge influence on Renaissance culture. Not just simply a matter of incorporating works written in foreign languages and times past into his present. Shakespeare arguably invented a uniquely English version of the Renaissance. He mixed together the plots of ancient tragedies with the history of medieval England so masterfully, that it was difficult to untangle them. Shakespeare was working in the theatre at the height of the renaissance movement. Shakespeare had an impact on everyone during the renaissance not just in there emotions but in their vernacular as well. The assassination of Lincoln is said to be …show more content…
Early modern english as a literature was unfixed in structure and vocabulary compared to greek and latin. When William Shakespeare began writing his plays, the English language was rapidly consuming words from other languages due to wars, exploration, diplomacy and colonization. By the age of Elizabeth, english had become widely used with the expansion of philosophy, theology and physical science. Writers still lacked the vocabulary to express such ideas. Nearly ten percent of Shakespeare’s 20,000 word vocabulary was new to his audience. He made words like fashionable, softhearted, and