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
Shakespeare is credited with creating over 1,700 words in the English language.
Shakespeare is estimated to have created around 1,700 words in the English language.
Shakespeare is estimated to have used or created around 1,700 words in the English language.
1500-1700
yes
Shakespeare's plays contain around 31,000 different words.
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.