Elizabethan Language Used to Describe the Plague
English literature from 1603 to 1625 is properly called Jacobean after the new monarch James I. It travels full swift by as if it is an unstoppable wind. How Shakespeare S Great Escape From The Plague Changed Theatre Books The Guardian Latin pestis also gives us pest now used to describe animals that destroy crops or any general nuisance or irritant. . However these orders did not help diffuse the affects of the plague. To Miranda and Prospero the use of language is a means to knowing oneself. The disease reached the playwrights house in London and was to. Shakespeare use Mercutio to show the mood of rest of the play. We are told that none can escape its darts making our death seem like a certainty. How Shakespeares great escape from the plague changed theatre. For many people today reading Shakespeares language can be a problembut it is a problem that can be solved. Caliban does not view language in the s...