I am not sure that Shakespeare did create a paradigm shift. His good plays create a perception shift for his audience, but I am not sure that his entire body of work did so for the world at large.
Shakespeare helped to create an acting company, two playhouses, over thirty plays and more than a hundred and fifty sonnets.
Yes
William Shakespeare was born during the English Renaissance, and as such was a Man of the Renaissance. Now does this make him a Renaissance Man like Leonardo de Venici? No since he was not involved in many different sciences or new thought processes. Master Shakespeare did in fact create some of the words we use today, like Baggage and Luggage. So in that he was a "new thinker"
Shakespeare wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.
he added -ment to create a noun
Shakespeare helped to create an acting company, two playhouses, over thirty plays and more than a hundred and fifty sonnets.
Voltaire created a paradigm shift by challenging traditional ideas and promoting rational thinking. Through his works, he advocated for freedom of thought, expression, and tolerance, which influenced the Enlightenment movement and shifted attitudes towards reason, science, and progress.
A poet and playwright, who the Queen influenced and persuaded to create more so she could enjoy the entertainment.
William Shakespeare
The lines "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble" are from William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". They are spoken by the three witches as they create a potion in Act 4, Scene 1.
Yes
He didn't, really. Some highly pretentious authors, like Harold Bloom, have claimed that he did, but what Bloom is claiming is that Shakespeare invented Victorian literary criticism, which is not only ridiculous but impossible. With Shakespeare, people take their own ideas to the plays and find them reflected there and articulated better than they could articulate them themselves. Shakespeare, in his own words, "holds the mirror up to nature" but he does not create nature. He did not create Harold Bloom's Victorian outlook on literature, but when Bloom looks at Shakespeare, he finds his outlook reflected back to him, and imagines that Shakespeare must have invented it.
yes
William Shakespeare was born during the English Renaissance, and as such was a Man of the Renaissance. Now does this make him a Renaissance Man like Leonardo de Venici? No since he was not involved in many different sciences or new thought processes. Master Shakespeare did in fact create some of the words we use today, like Baggage and Luggage. So in that he was a "new thinker"
by thinking........:-)
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.