Shakespearean Language

This video explains how to understand Shakespearean Language.

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hello i am professor simon's today why i'm here to tell you about shakespearean
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language
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the shakespeare language used in the works of the bog
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is rich and california dot many of his old word eso no longer in current cubes
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or in the modern dictionary
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and the origins meanings of the elizabethan vocabulary
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are totally unfamiliar
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william shakespeare did in fact invent many of the words of the u_n_'s and
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these are documented in the william shakespeare dictionary
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his translations and understanding
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of the real meetings
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behind some of the shakespeare language in the great plains and some nights can
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be difficult
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he was not belong to the nobility
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and he's elizabethan education he was quite basic as he left the school at the
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age of three and never attended any university
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neither of these parents could read or write
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cell addiction he was not that important during the year
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yet his vocabulary was massive for a man of his background
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a total of five thousand different words were used in his place
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and a photo of the seven thousand were used in his claims and sonnets
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this gave him a vocabulary of two thousand words
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when the average vocabulary of the day in stratford england was less than five
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hundred
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the average english-speaking person only has about two thousand words in their
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vocabulary
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for a person with a university degree this rage
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in vocabulary would rise to about three thousand to four thousand
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it is therefore no wonder that he is referred to as in
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elizabethan literary genius
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part of the genius of shakespeare was that he was lighting at that time when
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one language was rapidly changing
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early modern english was evolving into the language that we speak now modern
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english
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shake kapila took advantage of this situation by using a lot of work to
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expect incorporated a great vowel shift within many of his famous puns
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the grave out shift was the transformation of the old vowel sounds
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of a early modern english into the new vowel sounds
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eat bonnie
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that we know today in modern english
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students of shakespeare
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often have trouble understanding the sentence structure in the place
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shakespeare quite frequently road sentences in inverted
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all backwoods order
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in shakespeare and
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recalls dice on and a hasty click away
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from measure for missions act
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modern english translation stopped singing elite quickly
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in shakespeare how like a four names public looks
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from the merchant of venice
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modern english translation
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he looks like an overly flattering tavern keeper
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in shakespeare
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the clock struck nine when i did send the nuts
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unique often haha she promised to return
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from romeo and juliet
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modern english translation i sent the nuts at nine o'clock she promised to
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return and a half an hour
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this subject before the structure is found in germanic languages and the
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inverted sentence structure reflects the english language is germanic groups
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the words of shakespeare's plays are meant to be spoken aloud
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plays a dynamic thing where all the action takes place on the stage instead
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of taking place inside your head as when reading a novel
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take the time to read the today's allowed
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and you will be a new insights into the language of shakespeare
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shakespeare made great use of with people knew and what they didn't notice
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shakespeare essentially wrote for toward the end soon
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those who were educated and those who were not
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the educated classes who interviewed him nobility and the university educated
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would understand the soft launch of gsm about politics international affairs and
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of course
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which would fly right over the penny paying grumblings heads on the other
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hand the ground james would appreciate the portia jugs within the plays as with
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everyone else
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shakespeare wrote
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for a diverse audience who sometimes understood delay armenians within the
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plays and sometimes did not
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he understood
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his varied audience and trying to write something for everyone
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reflecting back not only the diverse city of human experience
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but to the eternal feedings within that experience
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that is why as the english language continues to revoke both teams within
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the plays will always see martin
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hopefully now he'll have learned to get these to shakespeare by appreciating his
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wordplay anderson tactical
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word order
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differences of early morton english
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maybe now reading romeo and juliet won't be such a tragedy
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i was
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see you next time comprise of