Shakespeare's Influence On English Language

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Even now, Shakespeare is quoted, all the “live long day”(Julius Caesar). In books, television shows and movies, you can find Shakespeare’s words and influence.
He introduced more than 3,000 words to the English language. Without even realizing it, our everyday speech is full of words and phrases used in his plays and poems. In “one fell swoop”(Macbeth) or thirty-seven plays and one hundred and fifty four sonnets,
Shakespeare changed the way the English word was written and spoken, and those changes are still seen today.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564 to a local merchant. They're scant records of William’s childhood and basically none of his education. It's says that “ he mostly attended the King's New
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In fact, there is even a Shakespearean adaptation of the Star Wars series.
The Lion King was a movie about a lion who was jealous of everything that his brother , the king had. He plotted to overthrow him so that he could be in control of the pride and eventually murdered him. In doing so he married, or mated with the wife of the former king and took over the family. Simba runs away with Timon and Pumbaa after
Scar convinces him to run away. The son, Simba acted differently than his nature and turned into a lion that ate bugs instead of meat in an effort to be something that he wasn’t. It took a friend from his past to get him to take back his kingdom.
In Hamlet, it's about a son wanting revenge on his father's death. just like Simbas uncle,Claudius, killed the Hamlet’s father and married his mother. In so doing he took over the The Kingdom of Denmark. Hamlet’s uncle convinced him to o England where he would secretly be killed but survives. Then went crazy and acted not like himself just like Simba did. Simba started eating bugs and Hamlet acted with madness. At the end of both stories Hamlet and Simba both take their rightful place as rulers of

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