Book: Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Quotes of Book: Shakespeare: The World as
Among the words first found in Shakespeare are abstemious, antipathy, critical, frugal, dwindle, extract, horrid, vast, hereditary, critical, excellent, eventful, barefaced, assassination, lonely, leapfrog, indistinguishable, well-read, zany, and countless others {including countless}. book-quoteCriminality was so widespread that its practitioners split into fields of specialization. Some became coney catchers, or swindlers {a coney was a rabbit reared for the table and thus unsuspectingly tame}; others became foists {pickpockets}, nips, or nippers {cutpurses}, hookers {who snatched desirables through open windows with hooks}, abtams {who feigned lunacy to provide a distraction}, whipjacks, fingerers, cross biters, cozeners, courtesy men, and many more. Brawls were shockingly common. book-quote