Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare
This poster illustrates how influential Shakespeare's writing has been, and how much of it we find in modern English. The common misconception is that all of Shakespeare's writing is in an old style of English that is foreign to the modern form of the language. People often fail to realize just how many common expressions of the present day are credited to Shakespeare. Harrison Bassani http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/15/140520535/things-we-say-today-and-owe-to-shakespeare