Shakespeare Day

Shakespeare Day is observed annually on April 23. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He is the author of some of the world’s most celebrated plays and poems.

Many people consider Shakespeare to be the greatest writer of the English language. His work is studied in schools and universities, and his plays are still performed in theatres across the world - many of them have been made into television programs or films. Shakespeare’s works provide the first recorded use of over 1,700 words in the English language, and he is credited with inventing many of these himself, by combining words, changing nouns into verbs, or adding prefixes or suffixes. Here are just some of the words that he is thought to have introduced or invented: 

dwindle, gossip, swagger, rant, fashionable, lonely, freezing, bloodstained, coldhearted, majestic.