Read This Before You Finish Your Basement. Even if it's currently cold concrete and crammed with boxes of off-season duds, the lowest floor of your home probably has loads of potential. Treat it just as you would any of the rooms aboveground, and it might just become the most popular spot in the houseâfor a lot less cash than adding on.
Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the literature and history of the English-speaking world, and many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages. Many have speculated about Shakespeare's life, including his sexuality and religious affiliation.
Writers Influenced by Shakespeare. By Paula Acevedo. Shakespeare has had significant influence from the time of his death until today, in contemporary movies, plays, and poems. Many authors have been influenced and inspired by his works, and the phrases and words he has contributed to the English language. The reason Shakespeare has survived the test of time is due to what he writes and how he writes it. No one is better at summing up human emotions in simple, yet eloquent phrases.