12/30/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare old englishPlease bring your own work to the party, showing us what effort you've already made to answer the question, rather than just copying the question straight from your assignment. If you're here looking for homework help, please flair your question as such. Please read and respect the rules surrounding homework questions! The Rules From academic takes on iambic pentameter to picking out the dirty jokes, there's always space for you here. Here again, we get that from the context.Welcome to reddit's premier Shakespearean subreddit! Here we can discuss the Bard, his greatness, his works and his life! A community for Shakespeare enthusiasts the world over, no matter your age, language, or experience level. In his time, retiring simply meant going to bed. Or when we talk about Shakespeare we say he retired to Stratford, and when we give up our careers we say that we have retired – but Shakespeare would never have used the word ‘retire’ in that way. For example, when Shakespeare refers to someone as a ‘cunning’ fellow we are tempted to think he’s describing someone deceitful as the word has a negative connotation in modern English, but in Shakespeare’s time cunning simply meant clever, quick and sharp, without the negative connotation. In Shakespeare’s plays we encounter numerous recognisable words, but which meant something different in Shakespeare’s time. Some words get hijacked and used for something completely different, like ‘gay’ which within the living memory of the 21 st century elderly, meant light-hearted or carefree, now means only one thing – a homosexual person. Others completely disappear: although some societies still use the word ‘kin’ to refer to relatives, we have lost the word ‘kith,’ meaning friends and acquaintances. Some new words come into English and some words disappear from usage, like those for trades that have disappeared, such as ‘cooper’, ‘chandler’ ‘wainwright’ but that still exist as surnames. Globalisation and the influence of other cultures and the languages that go with them is one thing, but even more influential is the new technology and the new language that has been invented to talk about it and use it. The last fifty years have probably brought more changes to the English language than any other period in history. Although he would understand you there would be some things he would find puzzling, and he’d have to take some time to work out what quite a lot of what you said meant… even though Shakespeare was the man who developed early modern English, introducing more than 1,700 words to the English language, and making up any number of phrases and sayings still commonly used today. If Shakespeare were to come back today he would find himself in the same situation. If you were to come back in 400 years’ time people would still be talking English as their mother tongue but in any attempts you made to join in with conversations you would find yourself misunderstanding things the other participants said, you would make them laugh at the way you said some things, and there would be words and phrases that you had never heard. The English language is changing all the time, or perhaps it is better to say it is developing. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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