20160423 【 Shakespeare 】

Shakespeare: 400 years since the death of a genius

The familiar phrase "break the ice" comes from Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.

The "ice is broken" when a difficult conversation or meeting is calmed by some basic introduction, such as a simple game.

More common words coinedby Shakespeare include road, gossip, lonely, bump and hurry.

Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare surely lives on, in everyday speech , as the most famous writer of all time.