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Question: Inventive use of language in Elizabethan poetry!?
I'm having trouble finding any information about this!. I need to come up with some points on how the Elizabethans changed language, specifically with poetry!. It shouldn't be on structure and form, just language!.

Does anyone have any points, even just a little tidbit of a point I can expand on!? I can't think of anything or find anything online!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Elizabethans (mainly shakespeare) made language what it is today!. Shakespeare was like a stepping stone in the transition the english language has made since Elizabethan time!. Shakespeare expaned the english vocabulary!. Something like 7000 words were used in his poems and sonnets when the average English speaking person only has about 2,000 words in their vocabulary!. So basically they developed the language and added to it, so gradually it became what it is today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com