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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
1564-1616
“All the world 's a stage, /
And all the men and women
merely players. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his
satchel And shining morning face, creeping
like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the
lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful
ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a
soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like
the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick
in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation . . . .
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
Have you heard these phrases?
I couldn’t sleep a wink.
He was dead as a doornail.
She’s a tower of strength.
They hoodwinked us.
I’m green-eyed with jealousy.
We’d better lie low for awhile.
Keep a civil tongue in your head.
What do we know about Shakespeare?
Born in Stratford, 1564
The 3rd of 8 kids
Married at age 18
Anne Hathaway was 26
They had 3 children, Twins
Wrote 37 plays
About 154 sonnets:
What is a Sonnet?
A lyric poem consisting of a single
stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines
linked with intricate rhyme scheme.
[French or Italian sonetto (French, from
Italian), from Old Provençal sonet,
diminutive of son, song, from Latin
sonus, a sound.]
Two schools of Sonnets:
First: The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
Second: The Shakespearean (or
English) sonnet.
three quatrains,
1 couplet
Alternating rhyme
independent rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg.
Iambic pentameter
Second: The Shakespearean (or
English) sonnet. It consists of three
quatrains, each with an independent
rhyme scheme, and ends with a rhymed
couplet: abab cdcd efef gg.
The Spenserian sonnet is a variant that
links the quatrain to the next: abaB
bcbC CdcD ee
XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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Chamberlain’s
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& glovemaker.
William
Shakespeare
1564-1616
Good friend for Jesus' sake
forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blest be the man that spares these
stones
And cursed be he that moves my
bones
A recreation of the
Washington shield
from the old manor
house, Sulgrave,
Northamptonshire,
England A.D. 1540.
The Flag of
Washington D.C.
(the District of
Columbia)
Welcome to the
Renaissance
Michelangelo's Pietà, sculptured in
1499, St Peter's Basilica Rome
Michelangelo’s David
The Last Supper
The Thinker
Vitruvian Man or . . .
Homertruvian . . .
Queen Elizabeth
It’s time to don
your doublet!
Tighten your trussing!
Get on your galligaskins!
Females, fit on your
farthingales!
Smooth your stomachers!
Remember your ruffs!
Slip on your shoes!
And grab your gloves!
Gentlemen?
Ladies?
Hi, my name is Kyle!
Is everybody ready?
We’re going to the theater!
The Globe!
A white
The groundlings
have
flag
is
The
young
men
are
paid
their
penny
and
are
flying.
It’s
afternoon,
time
for
dressing
up
to
take
the
standing
to
watch
the
There’s
a
the
play
to
start.
female
roles.
play. play today!
The wealthy are in the
It’supper
gooddecks.
the plague is
over and the theaters are
open again.
The Globe Theater 1599
Burned in 1613
The New Globe Theater 1999
The Plays
Comedy
Tragedy
Historica
Comedies
The Taming of the Shrew
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tragedies
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Written about 1595
Considered a tragedy
West Side Story
(Movie) based on R&J
Elizabethan (QE1) Words
An,and:
Anon:
Aye:
But:
E’en:
E’er:
If
Soon
Yes
Except for
Even
Ever
QE1 Words (contin.)
Haply:
Happy:
Hence:
Hie:
Marry:
Perhaps
Fortunate
Away, from her
Hurry
Indeed
Blank Verse
Much of R & J is written in it:
unrhymed verse
iambic (unstressed, stressed)
pentameter( 5 “feet” to a
line)
• ends up to be 10 syllable
lines
Prose
Ordinary writing that is not
poetry, drama, or song
Only characters in the lower
social classes speak this way
in Shakespeare’s plays
Why do you suppose that is?
Plot
The sequence of events in a
literary work
Exposition
introduces>>>>
•setting
•characters
•basic situation
Inciting Moment
Often called “initial
incident”
Romeo and Juliet “lock
eyes” at the party
Conflict
The struggle that
develops
man vs. man
man vs. himself
man vs. society
man vs. nature
Crisis
Protagonist’s situation: better
or worse
protagonist>good guy
antagonist>bad guy
Climax
The turning point:
Thus begins the falling action
Resolution
The end of the
central conflict
Denouement
The final explanation
or outcome of the plot
after the resolution.
Tragedy (Shakespearean)
Drama where the central
character/s suffer
disaster/great misfortune
Tragedy (Shakespearean)
In many tragedies, downfall
results from>
•Fate
•Character flaw/Fatal
flaw: HUBRIS
•Combination of the two
Theme
Central idea or >>
Insight about life which
explain the downfall
Figurative Language
Comparison of unlike things >
Paris standing over the “lifeless
body” of Juliet, “Sweet flower,
with flowers thy bridal bed I
strew…”
“Thou detestable maw…”Gorged
with the dearest morsel of the
earth…” Romeo
Dramatic Foil
A character whose purpose is to
show off another character
Benvolio for Tybalt
• look for others in R & J
Round characters
Characters who
have many
personality traits,
like real people.
Flat Characters
One-dimensional,
embodying only a single
trait
Shakespeare often uses
them to provide comic
relief even in a tragedy
Static Characters
Characters within a story who
remain the same. They do not
change their minds, opinions or
character.
Dynamic Character
Characters that change
somehow during the course of
the plot.
What are some famous
Dynamic characters in
literature, film, etc.?
Soliloquy
Long speech expressing the
thoughts of a character alone on
stage. In R & J, Romeo gives a
soliloquy after the servant has fled
and Paris has died.
Aside
Words spoken, usually in an
undertone not intended to be
heard by all characters
Pun
Shakespeare loved to use
them!!!
Humorous use of a word with
two meanings > sometimes
missed by the reader because
of Elizabethan language and
sexual innuendo
Direct Address
“A right fair mark, fair coz,
is soonest hit.”
“Ah, my mistresses, which
of you all/ Will now deny to
dance?”
Dramatic Irony
A contradiction between
what a character thinks and
what the reader/audience
knows to be true
Verbal Irony
Words used to
suggest the
opposite of what
is meant
Situational Irony
An event occurs that directly
contradicts the expectations of the
characters, the reader, or the
audience
Comic Relief
“Relief” from seriousness or
sadness.
In Hamlet, Julius Caesar, or
Macbeth look for moments of
comic relief that help “relieve”
the tragedy of the situation
Phrases Coined By Shakespeare
All our yesterdays (Macbeth)
All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)
All's well that ends well (title)
As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John)
Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice)
Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter's Tale)
Bear a charmed life (Macbeth)
Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)
Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra)
Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John)
The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly
already a known saying)
In a better world than this (As You Like It)
Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet)
Brave new world (The Tempest)
Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)
Breathed his last (3 Henry VI)
Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)
Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the
Shrew)
Cold comfort (The Taming of the Shrew / King John)
Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet)
Come what come may ("come what may") (Macbeth)
Comparisons are odorous (Much Ado about Nothing)
Crack of doom (Macbeth)
Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI)
A dish fit for the gods (Julius Caesar)
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar)
Dog will have his day (Hamlet)
Devil incarnate (Titus Andronicus / Henry V)
Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV)
Elbow room (King John; first attested 1540 according to Merriam-Webster)
Farewell to all my greatness (Henry VIII)
Faint hearted (I Henry VI)
Fancy-free (Midsummer Night's Dream)
Fight till the last gasp (I Henry VI)
Flaming youth (Hamlet)
Fool's paradise (Romeo and Juliet)
Forever and a day (As You Like It)
For goodness' sake (Henry VIII)
Foregone conclusion (Othello)
Full circle (King Lear)
The game is afoot (I Henry IV)
The game is up (Cymbeline)
Give the devil his due (I Henry IV)
Good riddance (Troilus and Cressida)
Jealousy is the green-eyed monster (Othello)
It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar)
Heart of gold (Henry V)
Her infinite variety (Antony and Cleopatra)
'Tis high time (The Comedy of Errors)
Hoist with his own petard (Hamlet)
Household words (Henry V)
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! (Richard III)
Ill wind which blows no man to good (2 Henry IV)
Improbable fiction (Twelfth Night)
In a pickle (The Tempest)
In my heart of hearts (Hamlet)
In my mind's eye (Hamlet)
Infinite space (Hamlet)
Infirm of purpose (Macbeth)
In a pickle (The Tempest)
In my book of memory (I Henry VI)
It is but so-so(As You Like It)
It smells to heaven (Hamlet)
Itching palm (Julius Caesar)
Kill with kindness (Taming of the Shrew)
Killing frost (Henry VIII)
Knit brow (The Rape of Lucrece)
Knock knock! Who's there? (Macbeth)
Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It)
Laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Laugh yourself into stitches (Twelfth Night)
Lean and hungry look (Julius Caesar)
Lie low (Much Ado about Nothing)
Live long day (Julius Caesar)
Love is blind (Merchant of Venice)
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water (Henry VIII)
Melted into thin air (The Tempest)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it ("There's a method to my
madness") (Hamlet)
Make a virtue of necessity (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
The Makings of(Henry VIII)
Milk of human kindness (Macbeth)
Ministering angel (Hamlet)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows (The Tempest)
More honored in the breach than in the observance (Hamlet)
More in sorrow than in anger (Hamlet)
More sinned against than sinning (King Lear)
Much Ado About Nothing (title)
Murder most foul (Hamlet)
Murder will out (Hamlet)
Naked truth (Love's Labours Lost)
Neither rhyme nor reason (As You Like It)
Not slept one wink (Cymbeline)
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (Macbeth)
[Obvious] as a nose on a man's face (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Once more into the breach (Henry V)
One fell swoop (Macbeth)
One that loved not wisely but too well (Othello)
Time is out of joint (Hamlet)
Out of the jaws of death (Twelfth Night)
Own flesh and blood (Hamlet)
Star-crossed lovers (Romeo and Juliet)
Parting is such sweet sorrow (Romeo and Juliet)
What's past is prologue (The Tempest)
[What] a piece of work [is man] (Hamlet)
Pitched battle (Taming of the Shrew)
A plague on both your houses (Romeo and Juliet)
Play fast and loose (King John)
Pomp and circumstance (Othello)
[A poor] thing, but mine own (As You Like It)
Pound of flesh (The Merchant of Venice)
Primrose path (Hamlet)
Quality of mercy is not strained (The Merchant of Venice)
Salad days (Antony and Cleopatra)
Sea change (The Tempest)
Seen better days (As You Like It? Timon of Athens?)
Send packing (I Henry IV)
How sharper than the serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child (King Lear)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Sonnets)
Make short shrift (Richard III)
Sick at heart (Hamlet)
Snail paced (Troilus and Cressida)
Something in the wind (The Comedy of Errors)
Something wicked this way comes (Macbeth)
A sorry sight (Macbeth)
Sound and fury (Macbeth)
Spotless reputation (Richard II)
Stony hearted (I Henry IV)
Such stuff as dreams are made on (The Tempest)
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep ("Still waters run deep") (2 Henry VI)
The short and the long of it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Sweet are the uses of adversity (As You Like It)
Sweets to the sweet (Hamlet)
Swift as a shadow (A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tedious as a twice-told tale (King John)
Set my teeth on edge (I Henry IV)
Tell truth and shame the devil (1 Henry IV)
Thereby hangs a tale (Othello; in context, this seems to have been already in use)
There's no such thing (?) (Macbeth)
There's the rub (Hamlet)
This mortal coil (Hamlet)
To gild refined gold, to pain the lily ("to gild the lily") (King John)
To thine own self be true (Hamlet)
Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
Tower of strength (Richard III)
Towering passion (Hamlet)
Trippingly on the tongue (Hamlet)
Truth will out (The Merchant of Venice)
Violent delights have violent ends (Romeo and Juliet)
Wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)
What the dickens (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
What's done is done (Macbeth)
What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
(Romeo and Juliet)
What fools these mortals be (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
What the dickens (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Wild-goose chase (Romeo and Juliet)
Wish is father to that thought (2 Henry IV)
Witching time of night (Hamlet)
Working-day world (As You Like It)
The world's my oyster (2 Henry IV)
Yeoman's service (Hamlet)
Words created by Shakespeare
abstemious (The Tempest -- a Latin word that meant "to abstain from alcoholic drink" was generalized to sexual
behavior as well)
academe (Love's Labour's Lost; this is just an English form of "Academy", the Greek for Plato's grove)
accommodation (Othello)
accused (n.) (Richard II -- first known use as a noun, meaning person accused of a crime)
addiction (Henry V / Othello)
admirable (several; seems unlikely)
advertising (adj.)(Measure for Measure; in context, means "being attentive"; the noun was already in use)
aerial (Othello)
alligator (Romeo and Juliet; Spanish "aligarto" was already in use in English)
amazement (13 instances; first known use as a noun)
anchovy (I Henry IV; first attestation in English of the Spanish word for dried edible fish)
apostrophe ("apostrophas")(Love's Labour's Lost; seems to be a well-known word already)
arch-villain (Measure for Measure / Timon of Athens)
to arouse (2 Henry VI / Hamlet; "rouse" was the usual form)
assassination (Macbeth; "assassin" was already in use and derives from "hashish eater")
auspicious (several; "auspice" was a Roman practice of fortune-telling by bird flight)
bachelorship (I Henry VI)
backing (I Henry VI; this is just a pun on a known word)
bandit (II Henry VI, actually "bandetto", the first attestation in English of a familiar Italian word for people
"banned", i.e., outlaws)
barefaced (in the sense of "barefaced power") (Macbeth)
baseless (in the sense of fantasy without grounding in fact) (The Tempest)
beached (several, merely means "possessing a beach")
bedazzled (The Taming of the Shrew)
bedroom (A Midsummer Night's Dream, merely means a place to sleep on the ground)
belongings (Measure for Measure)
to besmirch (Henry V)
birthplace (Coriolanus; first attestation)
to blanket (King Lear; first use as a verb)
bloodstained (I Henry IV)
blusterer (A Lover's Complaint)
bold-faced (I Henry VI)
bottled (Richard III)
bump (Romeo and Juliet; first attestation of onomopoeic word)
buzzer (Hamlet; means gossipper)
to cake (Timon of Athens, first attestation as a verb)
to castigate (Timon of Athens)
to cater (As You Like It; from coetous, a buyer of provisions)
clangor (3 Henry VI / 2 Henry IV)
to champion (Macbeth; first attestation as a verb, and in an older sense of "to challenge"; though the noun was familiar as
someone who would fight for another)
circumstantial (As You Like It / Cymbeline; first attestation in the sense of "indirect")
cold-blooded (King John; first use to mean "lack of emotion")
coldhearted (Antony and Cleopatra)
compact (several; seems to have been a common word)
to comply (Othello)
to compromise (The Merchant of Venice, several of the histories; seems to have been already in use)
to cow (Macbeth; first use in English of a Scandinavian verb)
consanguineous (Twelfth Night; "consanguinity" was already in use)
control (n.) (Twelfth Night)
countless (Titus Andronicus / Pericles)
courtship (several, seems unikely)
critic (Love's Labour's Lost; Latin term)
critical (not in today's sense) (Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
cruelhearted (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Dalmatians (Cymbeline)
dauntless (Macbeth)
dawn (I Henry IV, King John; first use as a noun, the standard had been "dawning")
day's work (several, must have been a common expression)
deafening (II Henry IV; in the sense of a noise that is loud but does not produce real deafness)
to denote (several; already a word in Latin)
depository (???)
discontent (Richard III / Titus Andronicus; the verb was in use but this is the first attestation as a noun)
design (several, seems unlikely)
dexterously (Twelfth Night)
dialogue (several, seems already familiar)
disgraceful (I Henry VI; means "not graceful")
dishearten (Henry V)
to dislocate (King Lear, refers to anatomy)
distasteful (Timon of Athens)
distracted (Hamlet / Measure for Measure; seems possible)
divest (Henry V / King Lear; probably already in use as referring to a royal title)
domineering (Love's Labour's Lost; from a Dutch word)
downstairs (I Henry IV, supposedly first use as an adjective)
droplet (Timon of Athens)
to drug (Macbeth; first use as a verb)
to dwindle (I Henry IV / Macbeth, seems already familiar as a term for body wasting)
to educate (Love's Labour's Lost)
to elbow (King Lear; first use as a verb)
embrace (I Henry VI; first use as a noun)
employer (Much Ado about Nothing)
employment (several, obviously familiar)
engagement (several, seems simply the first attestation)
to enmesh (Othello)
to ensnare (Othello)
enrapt (Troilus and Cressida)
enthroned (Antony and Cleopatra)
epileptic (King Lear; first use as an adjective, though the noun was old)
equivocal (Othello / All's Well that Ends Well; first use as adjective, though the verb "to equivocate" was familiar)
eventful (As You Like It)
excitement (Hamlet / Troilus and Cressida; both times as plural; first use as a noun)
expedience (several, supposedly first use as noun)
exposure (several, supposedly first use as noun)
eyeball (The Tempest)
eyedrops (II Henry IV; means "tears")
eyesore (The Taming of the Shrew)
fanged (Hamlet, first attestation)
farmhouse (The Merry Wives of Windsor; first known use of the compound)
far-off (several, seems already familiar)
fashionable (Timon of Athens / Troilus and Cressida)
fathomless (not today's sense) (Troilus and Cressida)
fitful (Macbeth)
fixture (not current sense) (Merry Wives of Windsor / Winter's Tale)
flawed (King Lear; first use as an adjective)
flowery (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
foppish (King Lear)
fortune-teller (The Comedy of Errors)
to forward (I Henry IV; first use as a verb)
foul-mouthed (several, seems already familiar)
freezing (Cymbeline)
frugal (several; "frugality" was already in common use)
full-grown (Pericles)
gallantry (Troilus and Cressida)
generous (several, obviously already known)
gloomy (several, "to gloom" was a verb)
glow (several; the word had originally meant red-and-warm)
gnarled (Measure for Measure; alteration of knurled which was a standard word for bumpy)
go-between (several, seems familiar)
to gossip (The Comedy of Errors; first use as a verb; "gossip" was one's familiar friends)
gust (III Henry VI, seems already familiar and was an Old Norse word)
half-blooded (King Lear)
hint (Othello, first use in today's sense)
hob-nails (I Henry IV, alleged; seems already familiar)
hobnob (Twelfth Night; older term was "hab, nab", and not in today's sense)
homely (several, seems already familiar)
honey-tongued (Love's Labour's Lost)
hoodwinked (already known from falconry)
hostile (several, seems like a word that is already familiar)
hot-blooded (The Merry Wives of Windsor / King Lear)
housekeeping (The Taming of the Shrew; seems unlikely)
howl (several, clearly familiar)
to humor (Love's Labour's Lost, first attestation as a verb)
hunchbacked (can't find)
to hurry (Comedy of Errors, first attestation as verb)
ill-tempered (can't find)
immediacy (King Lear, first use as noun)
impartial (2 Henry IV)
to impede (Macbeth, first use as verb, though "impediment" was already widely used)
import (several, and not used in the modern sense)
immediacy (King Lear, first attestation as a noun)
importantly (Cymbeline, first attestation as an adverb)
inaudible (All's Well that Ends Well; "audible" was already in use)
inauspicious (Romeo and Juliet)
indistinguishable (not in today's sense)(Troilus and Cressida)
inducement (several, seems unlikely)
investment (II Henry IV, not in present sense)
invitation (The Merry Wives of Windsor; signifies "flirting")
invulnerable King John / Hamlet / The Tempest; first attestation for the negative; Coriolanus has unvulnerable)
jaded (several, seems already a term of contempt)
Judgement Day (I Henry VI; usual term had been "Day of Judgement")
juiced (Merry Wives of Windsor; first attestation as an adjective)
kissing (several, first attestation of the participle, though surely not its first use)
lackluster (As You Like It)
ladybird (Romeo and Juliet)
to lament (several, seems already familiare)
to lapse (several, first attestation as a verb, though already familiar as a noun)
to launder (first use as a verb; "laundress" was in common use)
laughable (The Merchant of Venice)
leaky (Antony and Cleopatra / The Tempest)
leapfrog (Henry V; first attestation but seems unlikely as a coinage)
lonely (several, seems unlikely)
long-legged (can't find)
love letter (can't find)
to lower (several, seems already known)
luggage (first use as noun)
lustrous (Twelfth Night / All's Well that Ends Well)
madcap (several, attestation as adjective; the noun had become popular just before)
majestic (several, first use as adjective)
majestically (I Henry IV; first attestation as adverb)
malignancy (Twelfth Night, seems possible)
manager (Love's Labour's Lost / Midsummer Night's Dream; first attestation as noun)
marketable (As You Like It; first use as adjective)
militarist (All's Well that Ends Well)
mimic (Midsummer Night's Dream)
misgiving (Julius Caesar; first use as noun, though "to misgive" was in common use)
misplaced (several, seems unlikely)
to misquote (1 Henry IV; not in the present sense)
money's worth (Love's Labours Lost)
monumental (several, seems unlikely)
moonbeam (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
mortifying (Merchant of Venice / Much Ado About Nothing )
motionless (Henry V)
mountaineer (Cymbeline; the sense is "hillbilly")
multitudinous (Macbeth)
neglect (several, obviously already known)
to negotiate (Much Ado about Nothing / Twelfth Night; verb from the Latin)
new-fallen (Venus and Adonis / I Henry IV)
new-fangled (Love's Labour's Lost / As You Like It)
nimble-footed (several, seems already a familiar expression)
noiseless (King Lear / All's Well that Ends Well)
to numb (King Lear, first attestation as a transitive verb)
obscene (several; straight from Latin)
obsequiously (first use of the adverb; comes from "obsequies", or funeral rites)
outbreak (Hamlet, first attestation as a noun)
to outdare (I Henry IV)
to outgrow (can't find)
to outweigh (can't find)
over-cool (II Henry IV)
overgrowth (can't find)
over-ripened (II Henry VI ;first-use of the familiar compound)
over-weathered The Merchant of Venice)
overview (can't find)
pageantry (Pericles Prince of Tyre)
pale-faced (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
to pander (several; was already a proverb)
pedant (several, seems already in common use for a stuffy teacher)
perplex (King John / Cymbeline)
perusal (Sonnets / Hamlet; first use as a noun)
to petition (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus; first use as a verb)
pious (several, seems very unlikely)
posture (several, seems known)
premeditated (several; first attestation of the adjective, though the noun was in use)
priceless (???)
Promethean (Othello / Love's Labour's Lost)
protester (not today's sense) (Julius Caesar)
published (2 Henry VI)
puking (As You Like It)
puppy-dog (King John / Henry V)
on purpose (several; seems very unlikely)
quarrelsome (As You Like It / Taming of the Shrew)
questing (As You Like It; first use of the gerund)
in question (several, seems already in use)
radiance (several; first use as noun)
to rant (The Merry Wives of Windsor / Hamlet; loan-word from Dutch or previously-unattested English word?)
rancorous (2 Henry VI, Comedy of Errors, Richard III, all early plays, seems unlikely)
raw-boned (I Henry VI)
reclusive (Much Ado about Nothing; first use as adjective)
reinforcement (Troilus and Cressida / Coriolanus; seems already in use)
reliance (???)
remorseless (several, first attestation of this form)
reprieve (several, obviously already in use)
resolve (several, obviously already in use)
restoration (King Lear)
restraint (several, seems already familiar)
retirement (II Henry IV; refers to military retreat; first use as noun)
revolting (several, obviously already familiar)
to rival (King Lear; first attestation as verb; noun was well-known)
rival (Midsummer Night's Dream; first attestation as adjective, noun was well-known)
roadway (II Henry IV; first attestation of the compound)
rumination (As You Like It; first use as noun)
sacrificial (Timon of Athens; not today's usage)
sanctimonious (Measure for Measure / Tempest)
satisfying (Othello / Cymbeline)
savage (several; the word was obviously already in use)
savagery (King John / Henry V; first use as this form)
schoolboy (Julius Caesar / Much Ado about Nothing)
scrubbed (The Merchant of Venice)
scuffle (Antony and Cleopatra; first use as noun, though the verb was familiar)
seamy-side (Othello)
to secure (II Henry VI; first use as a verb; the adjective was well-known)
shipwrecked (Pericles Prince of Tyre, seems unlikely)
shooting star (Richard II; first known use of the phrase)
shudder (Timon of Athens; first use as a noun; verb already well-known)
silk (alleged; obviously not Shakespeare's)
stocking (obviously not Shakespeare's)
silliness (Othello)
skim milk (I Henry IV; first use of the familiar term)
to sneak (Measure for Measure; supposed first use of the verb)
soft-hearted (2 Henry VI / 3 Henry VI; first use of the familiar phrase)
spectacled (Coriolanus; not in today's sense)
splitting (II Henry VI; first use as adjective)
sportive (Richard III / Comedy of Errors / All's Well that Ends Well; supposed first use)
to squabble (Othello; supposed first use, as with "to swagger")
stealthy (Macbeth; first use as adjective)
stillborn (can't find, obviously not Shakespeare's)
to submerge (Antony and Cleopatra)
successful (Titus Andronicus, seems dubious)
suffocating (Othello; supposed first use as a descriptor)
to sully (I Henry VI)
superscript (Love's Labour's Lost)
to supervise (Love's Labour's Lost; also Hamlet but not in today's sense)
to swagger (II Henry IV, others; in context this seems to be already a well-known word)
switch (first use to mean "twig")
tardily (All's Well that Ends Well; first use of adverb)
tardiness (King Lear; "tardy" as adjective was well-known)
threateningly (All's Well that Ends Well; first use of the adverb)
tightly (The Merry Wives of Windsor; first use as an adverb)
time-honored (Richard II)
title page (can't find; seems unlikely)
to torture (several; first use as a verb)
traditional (Richard III; first use as adjective)
tranquil (Othello; "tranquility" was an old word)
transcendence (All's Well that Ends Well; first attestation of the noun)
tongue-tied (III Henry VI / Julius Caesar / Troilus and Cressida; seems first attestation of a phrase already in use)
unaccommodated (King Lear)
unaware (Venus and Adonis; first use as an adverb; the adjective was not yet in use)
to unclog (Coriolanus, first use as a negative)
unappeased (Titus Andronicus)
unchanging (The Merchant of Venice)
unclaimed (As You Like It; not in today's sense)
uncomfortable (Romeo and Juliet)
to uncurl (???)
to undervalue (The Merchant of Venice)
to undress (The Taming of the Shrew; seems unlikely)
unearthly (Winter's Tale)
uneducated (Love's Labour's Lost, seems possible)
ungoverned (Richard III / King Lear)
to unhand (Hamlet)
unmitigated (Much Ado about Nothing)
unpublished (King Lear; in the sense of "still unknown")
unreal (Macbeth, first use of the negative)
unsolicited (Titus Andronicus / Henry VIII; supposed first use of the form)
unswayed (Richard III; not in today's sense, but "is the sword unswung?")
unwillingness (Richard III / Richard II)
upstairs (I Henry IV; supposedly first use as an adjective)
urging (Richard III / Comedy of Errors; first attestation as a noun
useful (several, seems already familiar)
varied (Love's Labour's Lost, others)
vastly (Rape of Lucrece, not present sense)
viewless (Measure for Measure; means "invisible")
vulnerable (Macbeth; used in today's sense)
watchdog (The Tempest; first use of the phrase)
well-behaved (The Merry Wives of Windsor; first known use of the compound)
well-bred (II Henry IV; first use of the familiar compound)
well-read (I Henry IV)
whirligig (Twelfth Night)
to widen (???)
widowed (Sonnet 97 / Coriolanus; first use as an adjective)
worn out (Romeo and Juliet / 2 Henry IV; seems unlikely)
worthless (III Henry VI, several others; seems just a first attestation)
yelping (I Henry VI; first attestation of this adjectival form)
zany (Love's Labour Lost; simply a loan-word from Italian commedia dell'arte)
Sources Used
Fashion pictures from High Fashion in
Shakespeare’s Time by Andrew
Brownfoot, Five Castles Press Ltd., 1992
Shakespeare’s Book of Insults, Insights,
& Infinite Jests, by John W. Seder,
Templegate Publishers, 1984
The Story of English by Robert McCrum,
et. al., Penguin Books, 1987