Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 1: The Monument and the Man
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Shakespeare and the English Language
Shakespeare's family line, his blood line, had died out by 17 hund but somewhat ironically, it was after that change of century that he began to really take off. There are many reasons why this may have happened. The growth of london and the larger market for theatres performing popular entertain in plays were surely part of it. But also arising nationalism, both in england and in britain as a whole,. And this spurred on a greater serious interest in english literature, in the english language. This is when scholars began publishing naries with etymologies of english words and phrases. You can see how this was especially important for works like sh Shakespeare's comedies
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