How Shakespeare Changed Everything
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The fortunes of the Moor -- Words, words, words -- The beast with two backs -- Flaming youth -- All honorable men -- To hold the mirror up to nature -- Give me my robe, put on my crown -- Not marble, nor the gilded monuments -- A king of infinite space -- To be or not to be.
Shakespeare is everywhere Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these fascinating tidbits: * Shakespeare coined more than 1,700 words, including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn. * Paul Robeson's 1943 performance as Othello on Broadway was a seminal moment in black history. * Tolstoy wrote an entire book about Shakespeare's failures as a writer. * In 1936, the Nazi Party tried to claim Shakespeare as a Germanic writer. * Without Shakespeare, the book titles Infinite Jest, The Sound and the Fury, and Brave New World wouldn't exist. * The name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice. * Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came directly from the Bard. Stephen Marche has cherry-picked the sweetest and most savory historical footnotes from Shakespeare's work and life to create this unique celebration of the greatest writer of all time.
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