I saw it all “in my mind’s eye.” ( from Hamlet)
“I have not slept one wink.” (Cymbeline)
I need some “elbow room.” (King John)
You say you’re not an actor. Then why do you keep delivering lines from Shakespeare? Because amazingly, these and many other sayings that we use every day actually come from Shakespeare’s plays and poems.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and later lived in London. “The Bard,” as he came to be called, was a remarkable playwright and poet. He was so inventive with words that, and. He also popularized many other words, such as and, by including them in his plays. And his phrasings and sayings have done anything but vanish
