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One thing to keep in mind with Shakespeare is that he didn't invent all the words he was credited with creating. They were just the first records we have of them being written down. He still invented a lot of words, just not nearly as many as people say.
He did invent the Dualshock Controller™ though. Right?
Oh no doubt, no doubt. I saw it on the internet once
Shadespesre*
He was really ahead of his time when he mentioned the DualShock™ controller in his play.
This will be part of a series of reminders over coming months that Shakespeare will have truly coined a smaller number of phrases than he's given credit for, and very few words at all. Dictionaries source by earliest known written use, and Willy Shakes was a unicorn for that purpose.
He was an upjumped middle-class prodigy from barely a century after the introduction of the printing press, with a mediocre education by the standards of the day, writing prolifically for both popular and elevated audiences. He was also famous enough in his own day to have had his collected works published, and the fact that his reputation exploded after his death ensured those volumes survived. He would have been writing slightly differently from many of his contemporaries, and a much higher amount of what he wrote has survived.
Or, in the Bard’s own words:
“Let’s eat a burrito, and watch as time flies, like Cupid’s mosquitoes, ‘neath Windows 95 skies”
I'm sorry, are we not going to talk about Williad Shadespesre?
He was known to spell his name several different ways.
Not like this though
Yeah keep it to Canon ones like William Shakespear or Elizabeth Tudor or Sir Frances Draque