On the WNYC Studios April 22, 2016 show this comment was made, 'His words aren't our words..' but I say aren't they really? We continue to use quite a few of Shakespeares' words still today!
Most of us don't realize just how much we are still influenced today by the words of Shakespeare. Shakespeare coined many famous phrases that we still use today! I'd venture to guess that most of us would be surprised when we recognize that we are even using them ourselves as we communicate with each other.
Here are just a few;
“WILD GOOSE CHASE”....is from ROMEO AND JULIET, ACT II, SCENE IV
“Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?” — Mercurio
“GREEN-EYED MONSTER”... OTHELLO, ACT III, SCENE III
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." - Iago
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." - Iago
"SEEN BETTER DAYS": AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT II, SCENE VII
“True is it that we have seen better days and have with holy bell been knolled to church, and sat at good men’s feasts and wiped our eyes of drops that sacred pity hath engendered.” –Duke Senior
“True is it that we have seen better days and have with holy bell been knolled to church, and sat at good men’s feasts and wiped our eyes of drops that sacred pity hath engendered.” –Duke Senior
"FOREVER AND A DAY": AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT IV, SCENE I
"Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her.” — Rosalind
“Forever and a day” — Orlando
"Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her.” — Rosalind
“Forever and a day” — Orlando
"GOOD RIDDANCE": TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ACT II, SCENE I
[Thersites exits]“A good riddance.” — Patroclus
[Thersites exits]“A good riddance.” — Patroclus
"FAIR PLAY": THE TEMPEST, ACT V, SCENE I
“Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, and I would call it fair play.” — Miranda
“Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, and I would call it fair play.” — Miranda
"LIE LOW": MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ACT V, SCENE I
“If he could right himself with quarreling, some of us would lie low.” — Antonio
“If he could right himself with quarreling, some of us would lie low.” — Antonio
"IT’S GREEK TO ME”: JULIUS CAESAR, ACT I, SCENE II
“Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. — Casca
“Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. — Casca
"AS GOOD LUCK WOULD HAVE IT": THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ACT III, SCENE V
“As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.” — Falstaff
“As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.” — Falstaff
"LOVE IS BLIND”: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACT II, SCENE VI
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit, for if they could Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformèd to a boy.” — Jessica
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit, for if they could Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformèd to a boy.” — Jessica
“BE-ALL, END-ALL”: MACBETH, ACT I, SCENE VII
“If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come.” — Macbeth
“If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come.” — Macbeth
“BREAK THE ICE”: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ACT I, SCENE II
"If it be so, sir, that you are the man must stead us all, and me amongst the rest, and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access, whose hap shall be to have her will not so graceless be to be ingrate.” — Tranio (as Lucent)
"If it be so, sir, that you are the man must stead us all, and me amongst the rest, and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access, whose hap shall be to have her will not so graceless be to be ingrate.” — Tranio (as Lucent)
“HEART OF GOLD”: HENRY V, ACT IV, SCENE I
“The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold, a lad of life, an imp of fame, of parents good, of fist most valiant.” — Pistol
“The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold, a lad of life, an imp of fame, of parents good, of fist most valiant.” — Pistol
“KNOCK, KNOCK! WHO’S THERE?”: MACBETH, ACT II, SCENE III
“Knock, knock! Who’s there, in th' other devil’s name?” — Porter
“Knock, knock! Who’s there, in th' other devil’s name?” — Porter
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