Shakespeare Facts

Shakespeare's works contain the first recorded use of approximately 1,700 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.

Shakespeare helped popularize "yo momma" style insults in literature, with characters in his plays trading maternal put-downs like "Villain, I have done thy mother" in Titus Andronicus.

Shakespeare invented hundreds of English words still used today, including 'assassination,' 'lonely,' 'generous,' and 'eyeball.'