Theme: the description of truth and issue in shakespeare's histories plan

§ A laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor);
§ A sorry sight (Macbeth);
§ As dead as a doornail (Henry VI);
§ Eaten out of house and home (Henry V, Part 2);
§ Fair play (The Tempest);
§ I will wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello);
§ In a pickle (The Tempest);
§ In stitches (Twelfth Night);
§ In the twinkling of an eye (The Merchant Of Venice);
§ Mum's the word (Henry VI, Part 2);
§ Neither here nor there (Othello);
§ Send him packing (Henry IV);
§ Set your teeth on edge (Henry IV);
§ There's method in my madness (Hamlet);
§ Too much of a good thing (As You Like It);
§ Vanish into thin air (Othello).many cases, it is not known if Shakespeare actually invented these phrases, or if they were already in use during Shakespeare's lifetime. In fact, it is almost impossible to identify when a word or phrase was first used, but Shakespeare’s plays often provide the earliest citation.strength of Shakespeare’s plays lies in the absorbing stories they tell, in their wealth of complex characters, and in the eloquent speech - vivid, forceful, and at the same time lyric - that the playwright puts on his characters' lips. It has often been noted that Shakespeare's characters are neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and that it is their flawed, inconsistent nature that makes them memorable. Hamlet fascinates audiences with his ambivalence about revenge and the uncertainty over how much of his madness is feigned and how much genuine. Falstaff would not be beloved if, in addition to being genial, openhearted, and witty, he were not also boisterous, cowardly, and, ultimately, poignant. Finally, the plays are distinguished by an unparalleled use of language. Shakespeare had a tremendous vocabulary and a corresponding sensitivity to nuance, as well as a singular aptitude for coining neologisms and punning.is cited as an influence on a large number of writers in the following centuries, including major novelists such as Herman Melville[9], Charles Dickens[4], Thomas Hardy and William Faulkner[8]. Examples of this influence include the large number of Shakespearean quotations throughout Dickens’ writings[4] and the fact that at least 25 of Dickens’ titles are drawn from Shakespeare[6], while Melville frequently used Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies, in Moby-Dick[7]. In fact, Shakespeare so influenced Melville that the novel’s main antagonist, Captain Ahab, is a classic Shakespearean tragic figure, “a great man brought down by his faults”[1]. Shakespeare has also influenced a number of English poets, especially Romantic poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge who were obsessed with self-consciousness, a modern theme Shakespeare anticipated in plays such as Hamlet. Shakespeare's writings were so influential to English poetry of the 1800s that critic George Steiner has called all English poetic dramas from Coleridge to Tennyson “feeble variations on Shakespearean themes”.