and vocabulary matched the maritime discoveries of the New World was the poet and dramatist William Shakespeare. It is impossible to quantify the relationship between a writer's genius and the development of a language; it is both simple and obvious and yet difficult to define. But suppose Shakespeare had lived before the age of printing, or suppose his fellow actors had not been able to preserve his place in book form.
from V Sundaram: News Today: Timeless genius of Shakespeare
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