<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Playwright, poet, actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Shakespeare's influence extends from theatre and literature to present - day movies, Western philosophy, and the English language itself . William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist . He transformed European theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through innovation in characterization, plot, language and genre . Shakespeare's writings have also impacted a large number of notable novelists and poets over the years, including Herman Melville Charles Dickens, and Maya Angelou, and continue to influence new authors even today . Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the history of the English - speaking world after the various writers of the Bible; many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages . </P> <P> Early Modern English as a literary medium was unfixed in structure and vocabulary in comparison to Greek and Latin, and was in a constant state of flux . When William Shakespeare began writing his plays, the English language was rapidly absorbing words from other languages due to wars, exploration, diplomacy and colonization . By the age of Elizabeth, English had become widely used with the expansion of philosophy, theology and physical sciences, but many writers lacked the vocabulary to express such ideas . To accommodate, writers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare expressed new ideas and distinctions by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, known as neologizing . Scholars estimate that, between the years 1500 and 2018, nouns, verbs and modifiers of Latin, Greek and modern Romance languages added 30,000 new words to the English language . </P>

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