Contribution to english literature by william shakespeare
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Originally Answered: What are the contributions of William Shakespeare in English literature (in brief)?
Well, the bard’s contributions are not just limited to English Literature, but the very language itself.
Added many words to the English language.Added so many commonplace turns of phrase to the language that even people who have never read a word of Shakespeare say them all the time without even realising. His addings in this respect are only really eclipsed by the King James Bible.Popularised a form of sonnet. He was not the first to use it, but his use of it is so famous that it is now commonly referred to as the Shakespearean sonnet. His sonnets also made a radical departure from the traditions of the Petrarchan sonnet by filling them with so much bawdy innuendo that anyone with even a passing understanding of Elizabethan slang will realise they can be positively filthy. This makes reading his sonnets quite an amusing experience.Made great strides towards bringing theatre to the masses. His open air theatre was inclusive enough that anybody from any background could usually afford to go and see one of his plays. His plays were also far less religious in tone than much of what came before. These open air performances were so despised by Cromwell and his puritans that theatre was banned for nearly twenty years after the civil war, and only restored in a radically different form after Charles II came to the throne.His plays have become such a large part of the cultural zeitgeist that a great number of stories told today are still derived from their plots, even in cases where that isn’t the intention. Of course, Shakespeare himself ripped plots off wholesale all the time (he made them his own of course), but barely anyone remembers the originals, whereas Shakespeare’s live on as some of the most famous works of English literature ever commited to paper.He was also one of the first great literary talents in England that didn’t enjoy a “classical education”. Up until Shakespeare, the majority of literary figures knew both Latin and Ancient Greek, and this was what their knowledge of mythology and legend was derived from. Shakespeare was described as having “little Latin and even less Greek”, so he likely derived much of his knowledge from the early English translations which were emerging at the time.
There are many more, but these are the ones which spring to mind for me.
Well, the bard’s contributions are not just limited to English Literature, but the very language itself.
Added many words to the English language.Added so many commonplace turns of phrase to the language that even people who have never read a word of Shakespeare say them all the time without even realising. His addings in this respect are only really eclipsed by the King James Bible.Popularised a form of sonnet. He was not the first to use it, but his use of it is so famous that it is now commonly referred to as the Shakespearean sonnet. His sonnets also made a radical departure from the traditions of the Petrarchan sonnet by filling them with so much bawdy innuendo that anyone with even a passing understanding of Elizabethan slang will realise they can be positively filthy. This makes reading his sonnets quite an amusing experience.Made great strides towards bringing theatre to the masses. His open air theatre was inclusive enough that anybody from any background could usually afford to go and see one of his plays. His plays were also far less religious in tone than much of what came before. These open air performances were so despised by Cromwell and his puritans that theatre was banned for nearly twenty years after the civil war, and only restored in a radically different form after Charles II came to the throne.His plays have become such a large part of the cultural zeitgeist that a great number of stories told today are still derived from their plots, even in cases where that isn’t the intention. Of course, Shakespeare himself ripped plots off wholesale all the time (he made them his own of course), but barely anyone remembers the originals, whereas Shakespeare’s live on as some of the most famous works of English literature ever commited to paper.He was also one of the first great literary talents in England that didn’t enjoy a “classical education”. Up until Shakespeare, the majority of literary figures knew both Latin and Ancient Greek, and this was what their knowledge of mythology and legend was derived from. Shakespeare was described as having “little Latin and even less Greek”, so he likely derived much of his knowledge from the early English translations which were emerging at the time.
There are many more, but these are the ones which spring to mind for me.
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