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The words snap-dragon and flap-dragon can refer to the game, the raisins used in the game, or the bowl with brandy and raisins. Other senses of flap-dragon are that of something worthless or trivial, as in "A Flap-dragon for your service, Sir!"
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement (Russian: Гамлет, или последняя игра без MMORPG-элементов, шейдеров и рекламы, also known as Hamlet on Android and Hamlet! on iOS) is an indie adventure game based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Shakespeare added hundreds of new words to the English language, including many commonly used words and colorful expressions that we still use today.
In April 2016, Roblox launched Roblox VR for Oculus Rift. At the time of release, more than ten million games were available in 3D. [80] Around the same time period, the safe chat feature was removed and replaced by a system based on a whitelist and with a set of acceptable words for users under 13 years old and a set of blacklisted words.
Shakespeare introduced or invented countless words in his plays, with estimates of the number in the several thousands. Warren King clarifies by saying that, "In all of his work – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare."
This category is for English phrases which were invented by Shakespeare, and older phrases which were notably used in his works. The main article for this category is William Shakespeare . Pages in category "Shakespearean phrases"
Corambis is an alternative name for Polonius in Hamlet. He is so named in The First Quarto of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1603); occasionally referred to as the "bad quarto". Cordelia is the youngest daughter in King Lear. She marries the King of France. At the end of the play she is hanged on Edmund's instructions.
Since Shakespeare's time, the character's name has become a synonym for loan shark, and as a verb to shylock means to lend money at exorbitant rates. In addition, the phrase " pound of flesh " has also entered the lexicon as slang for a particularly onerous or unpleasant obligation.