【词汇大师】莎士比亚(2/2)

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主持人的话
RS: "Does it surprise you that there are so many words in American English that come from Shakespeare -- or so many words and phrases?"
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British English"Very close. Shakespeare's language is very conversational for the time. Today it may seem a bit elite to us or musty, but in fact it was pretty much commonplace English in Shakespeare's time."
No, not really, I think because American English is so -- it goes back so much to the British English of the time. People in early America turned to England for their literature. It was only in the nineteenth century when you had people like Hawthorne and Melville and Thoreau and Emerson who began to think that they ought to build their own American tradition of literature.
"But even those men were extremely well-read -- and someone like Margaret Fuller, who was one of the early feminists, even in her writing  was really drawing on Shakespeare -- because they knew Shakespeare so well.