Words Invented By Shakespeare
Geni
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These are some of the supposedly 1700 words invented by Shakespeare,
but
which are - as the other posters comment - frequently words that were
first
used in Shakespeare's time.
I was sceptical about ZANY, but apparently it is used in LLL.
Accused
Addiction
Advertising
Amazement
Arouse
Assassination
Bandit
Bedroom
Beached
Blanket
Bump
Cater
Champion
Countless
Epileptic
Fixture
Flawed
Generous
Hint
Lonely
Mimic
Negotiate
Obscene
Premeditated
Rant
Summit
Torture
Varied
Worthless
Zany
Melanie
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wrote:
Yeah, I understand the OED uses the Shakespeare canon as one of its
basic sources, so by that accounting Shakespeare gets credited with
first use of many words. Not sure the tally explains S's abnormally
large vocabulary. I'm sure some would like to say there must have
been more than one author involved. bookburn
Peter Farey
Marlowe used some of these words before Shakespeare:
Because I think scorn to be *accused*.
Who is the man dares say I murdered him?
(E2 - before R2, although Shakespeare's is the first
example given of it being used as a quasi-noun)
If any Christian, heathen, Turk, or Jew,
Dares but affirm that Edward's not true king,
And will avouch his saying with the sword,
I am the *champion* that will combat him.
(E2 - before Mac, although Shakespeare's is the first
example given of it being used as a verb)
And Moors, in whom was never pity found,
Will hew us piecemeal, put us to the wheel,
Or else invent some *torture* worse than that;
(Tam1 - before 2H6, although Shakespeare's is again
the first example given of it being used as a verb)
I am much better for your *worthless* love,
That will not shield me from her shrewish blows.
(Dido - before Titus)
Peter F.
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"Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Marlowe used some of these words before Shakespeare:
>
> Because I think scorn to be *accused*.
> Who is the man dares say I murdered him?
> (E2 - before R2, although Shakespeare's is the first
> example given of it being used as a quasi-noun)
>
> If any Christian, heathen, Turk, or Jew,
> Dares but affirm that Edward's not true king,
> And will avouch his saying with the sword,
> I am the *champion* that will combat him.
> (E2 - before Mac, although Shakespeare's is the first
> example given of it being used as a verb)
>
> And Moors, in whom was never pity found,
> Will hew us piecemeal, put us to the wheel,
> Or else invent some *torture* worse than that;
> (Tam1 - before 2H6, although Shakespeare's is again
> the first example given of it being used as a verb)
So you don't 'necessarily' disagree here?
(Was Marlowe the first to use these terms
. in the sense that he did?)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_(play)
<<Edward II is a Renaissance or Early Modern period play written by
Christopher Marlowe. It is one of the earliest English history plays.
The full title of the first publication is The Troublesome Reign and
Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the
Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer. Marlowe found most of his material
for this play in the third volume of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
(1587). He stayed close to the account, but he embellished history
with the character of Lightborn (or Lucifer) as Edward's assassin. The
play was first acted in 1592 or 1593 by Pembroke's Men. The play was
entered into the Stationers' Register on July 6, 1593 (five weeks
after Marlowe's death). The earliest extant edition was published in
octavo in 1594, printed by Robert Robinson for the bookseller William
Jones; a second edition, issued in 1598, was printed by Richard
Braddock for Jones, and provided a scene not included in the 1594
text.>>
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"Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I am much better for your *worthless* love,
> That will not shield me from her shrewish blows.
> (Dido - before Titus)
Possibly Nashe:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido,_Queen_of_Carthage
<<Dido, Queen of Carthage is a short play written by the English
playwright Christopher Marlowe, with possible contributions by Thomas
Nashe. The playwrights depended upon Books 1, 2, and 4 of the Aeneid
of Virgil as their main source. The play was first published in 1594
by the bookseller Thomas Woodcock. The title page attributes the play
to Marlowe and Nashe, and also states that the play was acted by the
Children of the Chapel. That company of boy actors stopped regular
dramatic performance in 1584, but appears to have engaged in at least
sporadic performances in the late 1580s and early 1590s, so that
scholars give a range of 1587-93 for the first performance of Dido.
.
. Authorship
.
Some critics have virtually ignored the participation of Nashe — yet
the presence of a collaborator may help to explain the play's
divergences from Marlowe's standard dramaturgy. No other play by
Marlowe has such a strong female lead character, and in no other "is
heteroerotic passion the centripetal force of the drama's momentum.">>
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Art Neuendorffer
. I must go send some better messenger:
. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
. Receiving them from such a worthless post.