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 Usually Shakespeare is known for his famous plays, which have a distinctive design. But why do they have such a distinctive design? Many Shakespeareans analyzed Shakespeare’s work line for line. The most intriguing attribute of Shakespeare’s work isn’t only his fantasy or his variety of plays. The most interesting thing for B  ardolater was/  is his language. 
 * //__Shakespeare and His Magic__ //**

His control over the language was Shakespeare’s most remarkable attribute. His plays were not like any plays; his plays were language-games. He had the talent to describe a feeling, an atmosphere etc. with one simple sentence, which was his biggest tool in his time. His performances were during the day when the sun was shining, and scenes which played at night were really hard to act out. However, Shakespeare was so clever to describe the night in sentences. A very good instance is a passage of the tragedy, __Macbeth__. "There’s husbandry in heaven, their candles are all out“ - in this sentence Shakespeare wants to give the idea of a starless and dark night. Also in Shakespeare's __Midsummer Night's Dream__, he discribes the atmospehere with a line of his character. Oberon, the king of the fairys, discribes the situation and the surrounding only with a couple of lines. **(Any examples from AMND?)** Through that, the audience was locked in their own imagination and could build up their own world. Everything what we’re doing with light, colours, costumes and stage scenery today, did Shakespeare with his skilful use of language, and with the help of the audience's imagination. However, the imagination of his language didn’t make it difficult to understand his plays for the audience**__,__** in that time. Shakespeare used proper English for his plays, but didn’t write it in courtly English, which was spoken by the upper class. His English was spoken by “normal” peoples, owing to the positions of theater in that time. The theater was not esteemed in the Shakespearian time, and many middle class people came to see Shakespeare’s plays. But later his plays and his performances became very famouse and the upper society came also to see his plays. However, this didn't mean that Shakespeare eased English in his plays. Shakespeare lived in a time where the language didn’t have rules, so he invented many new words, and made them popular through his famous plays. Astonishingly , some of his words are still used in everyday life, and some of his words have totally different meanings than in the 16th or 17th Century. However, for the 16th and 17th Century he had many typical structures in his texts, compared to other playwriters in that time. Language-games, the language or his words weren't the only characteristics of Shakespeare's plays. He had a special style to write his plays//,// in which verse and prose played a big role. Verse is a rhythmic structure. It has a regular rhythm, which is called meter. Whereas, prose is an ordinary form of written language. Shakespeare uses these two forms very purposely. He uses them to distinguish persons from diffrent classes, situations or characters. For instance in his comedy, __A Midsummer Night’s Dream__, he shows very clearly who is an upper class character and who is a lower class character.

(Book p. 96; Line 269-273, Demetrius)

 Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none. If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone. My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourned, And now to Helen is it home returned, There to remain. (Book p. 28; Line 65-69, Bottom)  I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits; they would have no more discretion but to hang us. But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale. As you can see he separates these two characters, again only with his language. Demetrius, a noble man of Athens, speaks in verse and in courtly English. On the other hand, there is Bottom, a normal man who lives in Athens, speaks in prose. However, he didn’t want to show only the differences between his characters, he also want to show how connected his characters are. To show this connection he uses another language trick, which is called a couplet.

(Midsummer Night’s Dream p. 88; Line 64-65, Demetrius and Helena)   ** DEMETRIUS ** I had rather give his carcass to my hounds. ** HERMIA ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou drivest me past the bounds Of maiden’s patience. Hast thou slain him then? Henceforth be never numbered among men! Oh, once tell true, tell true even for my sake— Durst thou have looked upon him being awake, And hast thou killed him sleeping? O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much? An adder did it, for with doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Couplets are usually a pair of lines of verse, and these two pairs of lines are connected through two rhyming words. Usually, Shakespeare used these couplets for his couples in his plays, to show how connected and in love they are. You could list many examples like this one because Shakespeare uses these connections or differences in his language very often.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The significance and importance of a language can be measured if the following generation uses the language in the same way. The language of William Shakespeare is even today very universally valid. He characterized many generations with his work.