- At the time of Shakespeare, Juliet was most likely played by a man because women were not allowed to act.
- Shakespeare invented many words and is said to have had a vocabulary of about 29,066 words. An average person today might use about 2000 words used in everyday conversation invented by Shakespeare.
- Since there was no lighting and little props, the audience relied on the actors' lines and stage directions to tell the time of day and year, the weather, location, and mood of the scenes.
- Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language after writers of the Bible.
- At age 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
Small List of words Shakespeare Invented: (There are many more)
- Assassination
- Majestic
- Submerge
- Marketable
- Countless
- Generous
- Accused
- Torture
- Vaulting
- Excitement
- Dauntless
- Circumstantial
- Olympian
- Varied