I think it’s just a bunch of literature graduates who are creating this hype around Shakespeare and sort of circlejerking and making it like a big thing so that their useless degree somehow remains relevant

  • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I mean, like it or not Shakespeare has been a cultural juggernaut for 4 centuries. I’m not sure a bunch of literature students could manage that kind of outsized impact!

    These are just some of the words he invented that are in common use:

    accommodation

    aerial

    amazement

    apostrophe

    assassination

    auspicious

    baseless

    bloody

    bump

    castigate

    changeful

    clangor

    control (noun)

    countless

    courtship

    critic

    critical

    dexterously

    dishearten

    dislocate

    dwindle

    eventful

    exposure

    fitful

    frugal

    generous

    gloomy

    gnarled

    hurry

    impartial

    inauspicious

    indistinguishable

    invulnerable

    lapse

    laughable

    lonely

    majestic

    misplaced

    monumental

    multitudinous

    obscene

    palmy

    perusal

    pious

    premeditated

    radiance

    reliance

    road

    sanctimonious

    seamy

    sportive

    submerge

    suspicious