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When **__William Shakespeare__** began writing his plays, the English language which is a West Germanic language that developed in England and south-eastern Scotland during the Anglo-Saxon era was rapidly absorbing words from other languages due to wars, exploration, diplomacy and colonization. By the age of Elizabeth, English had become widely used with the expansion of philosophy, theology and physical sciences, but most of the writers lacked the skill to use the vocabulary to express their ideas. Writers such as **__Edmund Spenser__ was able to use the vocabulary to express his ideas by using the technique called neologizing which is by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language. During the years 1500 and 1659, the scholars had made an observation and discovered that there are nouns, verbs and modifiers of Latin, Greek and moder Romance languages added ** approximately ** 30,000 new words to the English language. **

__**Similarities**__
 * ** Born in England **
 * ** Died in England **
 * Poet is their occupation
 * Famous for their creative poems
 * Famous writer

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 * __Differences__**
 * ** Edmund **
 * ** was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School **
 * ** Famously wrote The Faerie Queen, an epic poem in honor of Queen Elizabeth I **
 * A man of his time
 * His work reflects the religious and humanistic ideals as well as the intense but critical patriotism of Elizabethan England
 * Shakespeare**
 * Educated at the King's New School
 * Famous for the Hamlet
 * Best known as a playwright
 * His plays are still performed in Theaters all over the world and there have been numerous television and movie adaptations
 * Also a poet - his poems are still read, enjoyed, and studied
 * At the beginning of his career he was an actor, appearing in some of his own plays
 * English Poet, greatest writer in the English Language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist