Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare

 Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare

The Bard has been credited with coining hundreds of words. In addition, there are many phrases, first used by him, that are still in use today. Here is a piece that utilizes some of both his words and phrases, indicated by quotation marks.

His “addiction” is “distasteful.” It “beggars all description.” You might think that he has “a heart of gold,” but “in my mind’s eye” your “love is blind.” I’ve seen him “pale-faced” and “puking,” having had “too much of a good thing.” His home is an “eyesore.” He comes home from his workplace, a “place of sound and fury,” “bedazzled” by the “deafening clangor,” looking to have the “milk of human kindness,” but finds there only a place of “cold comfort,” a “fool’s paradise.” I’m trying to be “impartial,” and not “sanctimonious,” but he is “bringing a plague on his house.” “Gossip” says that his wife’s love for him has “dwindled,” “more in sorrow than in anger,” due to his “lackluster” life. Maybe a change to one of those “new-fangled” jobs will help him. He needs to enter a “brave new world.”