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====Thesis Statement: William Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest authors’s of all time as proven by expanding of the English language, strides to bring medieval and classical literature to the modern literature we know today, and his influential plays.====


 * Source 1: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/**
 * Influential Plays**
 * 1) no one knows Williams actually birthday
 * 2) Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than Shakespeare
 * 3) Anne was 3 months pregnant when they got married
 * 4) many of Shakespeare's life facts are unknown
 * 5) Shakespeare and him company built 2 global theaters
 * 6) he never published any of his plays
 * 7) all of Shakespeare's family were literature
 * 8) born in 1956
 * 9) Shakespeare was the eldest son of Mary Arden, the daughter of a local landowner
 * 10) Very little is known about Shakespeare early life
 * 11) When Shakespeare was 15, a woman from a nearby village drowned in the Avon. Her death was ruled accidental but it may have been a suicide
 * 12) lived in Stradford
 * 13) expanded expectations
 * 14) influenced large numbers of poets
 * 15) 2nd most quoted writer in history
 * 16) introduced 2 main factors to poetry
 * 17) wrote 38 plays
 * 18) plays were divided into comedy, tragedy and history
 * 19) plays were translated into the english language
 * 20) preformed around the world


 * Source 2: [|EJ2101207896&mode=view]**
 * Expanding the English language**


 * 1) 240 words that appear in print in a play
 * 2) invented common language we use today
 * 3) Shakespeare was known in his day as a very rapid writer
 * 4) Theater as we know it did not exist without Shakespeare
 * 5) Theater later became the most commercial entertainment
 * 6) he made new words by adding old words and new words together
 * 7) he created words
 * 8) since he is generally the most widely read playwright in the English language he has been used as an example about how to use English
 * 9) the words Shakespeare created are still sometimes used in present day
 * 10) many of the words Shakespeare created have been modified
 * 11) Well knows around the world
 * 12) Created many playwrights and poems
 * 13) the English language quickly gained words from other languages due to wars
 * 14) by the age of Elizabeth, English had become more used in other countries
 * 15) many writers lacked the vocabulary to express ideas
 * 16) Shakespeare would barrow/ adopt a word of phrase from other languages this was called neologizing
 * 17) his expansion of the English language began as early as 1598
 * 18) he was known for dignifying the language
 * 19) many Shakespearean words and phrases were embedded in the English language
 * 20) introduced new poetic and grammatical structures


 * Source 3: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/william-shakespeare-the-worlds-most-influential-writer.html**
 * Making of the modern literature we know today.**
 * 1) many of his plays appeared in print
 * 2) continually preformed around the world
 * 3) translated into every major living language
 * 4) wrote one and a half plays a year
 * 5) member of a theater company
 * 6) His preforming group was named one of London's finest
 * 7) earned money in the theater company
 * 8) made a lot of real estate purchases
 * 9) found finical success in his life time
 * 10) wrote 154 sonnets
 * 11) preformed as an actor in plays
 * 12) helped shape the English language
 * 13) introduced new terms to English
 * 14) invented new rules for grammar
 * 15) at the time french and Latin were used in English
 * 16) Shakespeare's plays changed how actors preformed
 * 17) make new ways for actors to
 * 18) died in 1616
 * 19) in his will gave most possessions to his daughter
 * 20) left the humanity a rich legacy


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 * 1) expanded expectations by proving what could be accomplished through characterization, plot, language and genre
 * 2) influenced Charles Dickens
 * 3) large number of Shakespearian quotes in Dickens writings
 * 4) 25 of Dickens titles are drawn off Shakespeare's
 * 5) influenced romantic poets
 * 6) created blank verse
 * 7) made the English language colorful and expressive
 * 8) borrowed words from classical literature
 * 9) to create words he would change nouns to verbs
 * 10) his first plays were experimental
 * 11) had a lot of talent
 * 12) popular dramatist
 * 13) first event was called " The Comedy of Errors"
 * 14) when theaters closed because of plague William looked to nondramatic poetry
 * 15) Shakespeare's poems were probably published during the time of the plague
 * 16) William was never afraid to show emotion and ideas thats what made his poetry to appealing
 * 17) by 1594 he fully engaged his career
 * 18) became a successful writer for " The Lord Chamberlain's Men"
 * 19) preformed in un-roofed theaters
 * 20) required by law for the plays to be set outside the city limits