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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest appearance of the phrase dead as a doornail appears in William Langland's 14th century religious allegorical poem, Piers Plowman. The relevant line in the original poem stated, Fey withouten fait is febelore Ã¾en nouÈt, And ded as a dore-nayl..
Cade keeps pushing to fight, and eventually, Iden kills him. The sad part is, it was all completely unnecessary. And at the end of it, Cade is the only one who's as dead as a doornail. This phrase was pretty popular in Shakespeare's day. People already said it much like we do today. So we can't give Shakespeare all the props for this one, Shmoopers.