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This Earth, This Realm, This England - S1.E4 - The Adventure of English

Visiting the England of Queen Elizabeth the First shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new words into the language. Scholars were bringing new Latin terms into the language, and there was a movement to stop this and keep English 'pure'. Shakespeare combined the languages of the common people and the aristocracy to take English to new heights and to invent so many memorable words and phrases.

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This Earth, This Realm, This England - S1.E4 - The Adventure of English

November 13, 2003

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