Often
Oft is not a shortened word. Often is a lengthened word. The original word is oft and the form often did not appear until about a century before Shakespeare's day. They are, of course, the same word and mean the same thing.
It means "often". "Often" is actually a lengthened form of "oft"Oft is a poetic way of saying "often."Shakespeare's text is written in early modern English, not shakespeare talk. But I digress, oft means "often.""Oft" is the same word as "often". You will notice that words with -en at the end will sometimes have a form without the -en ending. Thus "hap" and "happen", "ope" and "open". Many of these appear to be adjectives formed from the past forms of words or from nouns, as "wooden" from "wood", "hempen" from "hemp", "shotten" from "shot".In the case of words like "often", the ending has survived after the reason for it has ceased to be.
It is an oft quoted phrase but it is not from any of Shakespeare's plays.
Oft is a poetic way of saying "often."
'tis, ope, o'er, gi, ne'er, i', e'er, oft, a', e'ev are some abbreviations made be shakespeare
Yes, the word 'oft', but it is an archaic word or only used in 'literary' works.e.g."Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises; and oft it hitsWhere hope is coldest, and despair most fits."[Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well, Scene II, Act I. Words spoken by Helena.]
Shakespeare
Shakespeare did his work in London to keep William Shakespeare alive.
What do you mean if Shakespeare have it? If you mean does Shakespeare have what it takes, then yes. He should any way.
"What often makes you angry..."
Shakespeare cannot be mean - he has been dead for centuries.
What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare's work address?