Monday, January 9, 2012
Did you just quote shakespeare?
We talked in class today about how Shakespeare has influenced today's society, and how some phrases which were coined by him aren't necessarily attributed to him. On Mallory's Vlog, she points out the possibility of Shakespeare origins in "looks that kill." And vice versa, the way some people will 'quote from the bible' something that is not actually in the bible. I found this website that lists a group of Shakespeare sayings that were coined by him, even ones as simple as 'love is blind:' Shakespeare phrases
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While teaching an English class at Lone Peak High School a while ago, we had a lesson on Shakespeare speech. it was the first day of the new unit, so we filled the board with these exact phrases and had the students think of what they all had in common. It was hilarious to see them draw all sorts of crazy connections. They were all shocked to find that they all came from Shakespeare himself, and that they had used these phrases without knowing they were Shakespeare's creation.
ReplyDeleteCool! Thanks for sharing! What I think is cool is that he coined Dead as a Doornail cause Dickens just dissects that phrase to pieces in the beginning of A Christmas Carol. :)
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