English History Forum:
Shakespeare
Posted by: Canadian () on 12 Sep 2003 at 9:41:14 PM
In-Reply-To: Shakespeare posted by anonymous on 12:37:03 PM 19 Nov 2002
WHY??!! Because he was the most prolific and best writer in the English language. Geoffrey Chaucer predated him by 200+ years and was the English language pioneer but the language of his day is more remote from ours today and does not have as much colloquial meaning. Shakes peare's style and prose simply became the bench-mark. Contemporaries like Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson just didn't click with the English psyche the same way that he did. The King James Bible is said to owe its style to him - many people say that he himself WROTE it. Winston Churchill's great speechifying owed itself to the Bard as he himself would have admitted. It was needed in order to bolster the English people because it was so much a part of the fabric of England!
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