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  • Essay / The Bard of Avon - 539

    INFLUENCE AND IMPACTNowadays, writers who write poems, plays, and other writings use up to approximately 7,500 to 10,000 unique words. During Shakespeare's time, he was known to use up to 29,000 unique words in his works. He alone developed nearly 3,000 words in English. Shakespeare wrote vulgar, comical, hateful, abominable and cruel insults that his audience could appreciate and relate to. Shakespeare's insults were usually concealed in a cleverly produced manner. People today say that if Shakespeare had not evolved and demonstrated such an abundant amount of literature that he mastered, he would not have had much impact on the English language or literary works today. today. Shakespeare has been defined as "the man of words" because his ability to produce such popular and intense vocabulary made him something of a writing god in his day. He was also known as the Bard of Avon (Great Poet) due to his appreciation for his style. Some of our greatest writers of our time could not have surpassed the literary works of Shakespeare and that is why he is so highly...