Many say Shakespeare had his own language. People nowadays do not even notice that the words they use daily might have been originated because of Shakespeare. “Shakespeare's
Non-Standard English, begins with the general prefatory aim to provide the student of
Shakespeare with a series of authoritative guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poems. While demonstrating authority and command.” Says article writer,
Curren-Aquino, Deborah T. Curren-Aquino explains that Shakespeare had his own way with words when it came to talking about women, music, food, etc. Curren-Aquino gives us an example of a word people use in today’s time that was created by Shakespeare himself, swagger.
Swagger was used in Hamlet as a verb to describe …show more content…
Curren-Aquino tells us, “David Crystal recently mounted a specific challenge to what he calls "the quantity myth" of Shakespeare's vocabulary, the belief
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that Shakespeare had "'the largest vocabulary of any English writer.'" 24 This is not true, Crystal says, simply because the vocabulary of English has increased over the centuries, so that modern writers in general use far more words than Shakespeare.” While David Crystal could be right, most would argue.
We can not forget that there would not be words without the way they are spelled.
Shakespeare helped a lot with that too. “Spelling in Shakespeare's day was what John Andrews, the editor of the Everyman edition of Hamlet and Shakespeare Quarterly, called "unanchored":
"Andrews means more slippery, free-floating, not just in word-letter formations but in meaning"
(Rosenbaum 252). This flexibility in spelling allowed for overlapping connotations of words.
Thus, as Ron Rosenbaum points out, when original spelling is used, the debate about …show more content…
They believe Shakespeare wrote those to reflect over gender, race, and class. Public writer, Paul A. Cantor, explains this perfectly. “Untraditional approaches taken to teach Shakespeare show that the issue of the humanities in US colleges is more complicated than is often supposed, and that attention must be given not just to what is being taught but also to how it is being taught. The movement that has come to dominate American Shakespeare criticism is the so-called The New Historicists inject a new passion into discussions of the historical limitations of Shakespeare's thought by examining them in the context of today's political issues. They are interested in the ways that Shakespeare's plays reflect the race, class, and gender prejudices of his day. For the New Historicists, Shakespeare becomes a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with American culture. What is wrong with the New Historicism is that it pursues its political analysis of Shakespeare within the context of a narrow political agenda, largely determined by specific contemporary concerns.” Cantor explains perfectly