It's not so much short for something as a spelling which shows a slangy pronunciation. 'A means "he", because in the slang of the day, that's how some people said it. It's rather like "ain't" which is exactly the same as the word "isn't" but used by different people.
Please note that the apostrophe comes before the a; it's 'a not a'.
Not a one. Shakespeare wrote only poems and plays, not stories, short or otherwise.
Shakespeare used the word "ope" as a short form of "open." It is not clear whether this was a colloquialism or a poetic coinage.
Shakespeare's "The Merry wives of Winsdor"
He was not. "Bard of Avon" - or "Bard" for short is correct.
Shakespeare is talking about enduring beauty or grace, and relates this to the comparatively short length of a single season of the year.
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Not a one. Shakespeare wrote only poems and plays, not stories, short or otherwise.
A short story by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare used the word "ope" as a short form of "open." It is not clear whether this was a colloquialism or a poetic coinage.
Shakespeare's "The Merry wives of Winsdor"
He was not. "Bard of Avon" - or "Bard" for short is correct.
Shakespeare is talking about enduring beauty or grace, and relates this to the comparatively short length of a single season of the year.
The Bard short for The Bard of Avon.
It's short for "or the other", as in "one or the other".
No - not in the sense that we use the term "Short Story" today. See the related question below.
No, short fiction did not begin with Shakespeare. It also didn't begin in Britain. Short fiction began thousands of years ago as oral traditional stories.
William Shakespeare sometimes uses the word gi in his plays. This word has the same meaning as the word give.