Will's words: how william shakespeare changed the way you talk, paperback/jane sutcliffe

A celebration of the words, phrases, and idioms that Shakespeare invented and the contributions he made to the modern-day English lexicon.

The Bard of Avon is responsible for such familiar phrases as ``whats done is done`` and ``too much of a good thing.

`` He even helped turn ``household words`` into household words.

As readers will discover, ``the long and the short of it`` is this: Will changed the English language forever.

Wills words pop up all over the place.