The Queen, as head of government, set policies about what could or could not be represented in a play. Although some blasphemous material was sometimes censored out (including a lot of Falstaff's...
William Shakespeare defined the Globe Theatre and introduced Theatre to not only all of Elizabethan England, but also to modern England and the rest of the world today.
As Shakespeare's work became more and more firmly entrenched as a part of English culture, its influence on everyone's language and mode of communication became stronger and stronger. This would have...