Alexandra Alter
American journalist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Shakespeare distinguished himself from his contemporaries not through swordplay or even through his plots, which were mostly lifted from Plutarch, Ovid and European history and myths, but through his linguistic innovations: ‘‘Hamlet,’’ for example, included 600 words that Shakespeare had never used before.
—Alexandra Alter, American journalist, The Pueblo Chieftain, November 27, 2005
Posted on November 30, 2005 at 11:31 AM
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