Moreover, Sir Philip Sidney had the leisure, the wealth, the education, the wit and the will to make English itself the subject of some of his poetry and his treatise about language, A Defence of Poesy. He composed music and songs, he was the very perfect courtier-poet. Sidney praises a sound style that cannot allow an old language. He was fond of adding words together to form evocative images ranging from horses "milk-white", eyes "long-with-love-acquainted." Furthermore, in 1589, George Puttenham distinguished between written English and spoken English. Daniel Defoe went on to be one of the founders of English journalism and the English novel with "The Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe". Sir Walter Raleigh's accent was strongly remarked on. Local accent was noted at the end of the eighteenth century. The Renaissance saw the beginning of the great writing rift, the splitting away of literature from everyday speech. By the 1600s, poets like John Donne, Thomas Campion, enriching their writing technique, poets also enriched English as a language.
What's more, for centuries the streets of London had developed their own street slang. Crown and finance were centralised in London, so were rogues, thieves, prostitutes and criminals. Shakespeare was to use courtly English, street slang and his own local dialect. The playwrights combined the rich vocabulary and poetry and charmed voices of the courtiers with the slang and sensation and vulgar quick-fire action of the commoners. The Globe was built there in 1599, the plays that were written by Shakespeare, attracted a truly incalculable proportion of the population of London. The Globe could hold between three thousand and three thousand five hundred people.
For the other hand, Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. His father John, was a Glover, his mother, Mary Arden, came from a farming family.
