Yes
1500-1700
Shakespeare helped to create an acting company, two playhouses, over thirty plays and more than a hundred and fifty sonnets.
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 wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.
Yes
1500-1700
yes
Shakespeare helped to create an acting company, two playhouses, over thirty plays and more than a hundred and fifty sonnets.
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.
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.
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare wrote his first play for the same reason he wrote all of them--for money.
Some of the words which were first noted in Shakespeare's work are eyeball, assassination and puke. The attached link has a long list of words that he has invented on it.
Shakespeare created about 3,000 words that are used in modern English. For instance, in his time there were the words "eye" and "ball", and Shakespeare combined the two to create "eyeball" to describe the actual round sphere of the eyeball. Some other words he has introduced into the English language are "amazement", "assassination", "countless", "critical", "flowery", "gloomy", "lonely", "submerge", and "useful".
shakespeare used 31534 words and we use over 60, 000
At the minimum of 28,250 words.