Shakespeare created about 16 words in the 16th and 17th centuries, including murder, discouraged, inaudible, and inconvenient. He modified existing words and may have recorded previously oral words. Shakespeare was also a successful real estate investor and had a seven-year period with no record. He has no living descendants.
English playwright William Shakespeare invented new words in the 16th and 17th centuries that have become commonly used in modern English, with an estimated 16 words whose origins are traced to his plays. Shakespeare didn’t necessarily invent entirely new words, but rather tended to add prefixes or suffixes to already established words or change nouns into verbs, or vice versa. Examples of words first used in Shakespeare’s plays include murder, discouraged, inaudible, and inconvenient. Some historians believe that Shakespeare may not have been the one who invented words, but that he was simply the first to record words that had previously only been used orally.
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Shakespeare was an entrepreneur who made money on lucrative real estate investments. Some historians believe this is why he was able to devote so much time to writing.
There is a seven-year period in Shakespeare’s life following the birth of his twins in 1585 during which there is no record of him and they are referred to as the “Lost Years”. It is not known what he was doing at the time.
Shakespeare has no descendants because his only grandchild, a granddaughter named Elizabeth, died in 1670 without issue.
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