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Shakespeare's Global Influence: Facts and Myth

Delve into Shakespeare's enduring legacy with verified facts and myths. Explore his creative influence, coined phrases, Globe Theatre history, Macbeth's popularity, and the interesting tidbit on the curse of relocating his remains.

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Shakespeare's Global Influence: Facts and Myth

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  1. The Man Himself An assortment of verified Shakespearean facts

  2. A Universal Influence 24 of Uranus’ 27 moons are named after characters in 13 of Shakespeare’s plays. Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Mab, Portia, Rosalind, Margaret, Perdita, and Cupid.

  3. The reconstructed Globe The motto of the original Globe Theatre was and still is one of Shakespeare’s most quoted sayings: “totus mundus agithistrionem” or, “all the world’s a stage”.

  4. Words, Words, Words. Shakespeare coined many of English’s most well-used phrases, including one fell swoop, vanish into thin air, play fast and loose, be in a pickle, foul play, tower of strength, flesh and blood, be cruel to be kind, and with bated breath. • He also introduced 3,000 new words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.

  5. Shakespeare is graphed

  6. SO MUCH INFORMATION There are fifteen million pages related to Shakespeare on Google. (God: 132 million Elvis: 2.7 million George Bush: 14.7 million)

  7. Macbeth is thought to be one of the most produced plays ever, with a performance beginning somewhere in the world every four hours! Ian McEwan (Gandalf) as Macbeth, 1976

  8. Shakespeare placed a curse on anyone who perchanced to move his remains. Accordingly, they haven’t been relocated in almost 400 years.

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