... wait until the seventeenth century, 1604, to get its own dictionary. After San-skirt (India), Arabic, Italian, and French dictionaries. The first English dictionary was put together in 1604 by Robert Cawdrey. He called it The Table Alphabeticall, and the first word is "abandon". There are only two thousand five hundred forty-three words in this dictionary. By 1600 ... English language of many writers known to man – literally. Over 1000 words and phrases that he coined as part of his plays and prose are now in common use across the globe. He changed nouns into verbs, verbs into adjecti...

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... poet's paternal grandfather was Richard Shakespeare, a farmer in Snitterfield, a village four miles northeast of Stratford. He had three sons named Henry, John (William's father), and Thomas. Richard was a tenant of Robert Arden, father in law of John. Richard died in late 1560 and issued his property to William's dad, John. John Shakespeare became an alderman in 1565. In 1568 he was ... . Edmund died in 1607 and was not yet thirty years old. He was buried on December 31 of that year. His funeral was costly and amazing, with tolling bells heard across the town. It's most likely that Will...

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... nothing known about his departure from Stratford to London, or about the beginning of his theatrical career. In1592 Shakespeare was recognized as an actor, poet, and playwright when a rival playwright, Robert Greene, referred to him as "an upstart crow". A few years later William joined one of the most successful acting troupes in London: "The Lord Chamberlain's Men" in which he held ... -largest house in Stratford, called New Place, a cottage and garden nearby, and 107 acres of soccer field. Shakespeare's acting troupe lost their lease in 1599 and built their own theatre across the Tham...

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