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Showing posts with label King James Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King James Bible. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

"The Story of English: A Muse of Fire" with Robert MacNeil


This third episode of Robert MacNeil's history of the English language considers the enormous influence of Shakespeare, the "great genius" of the language, as well as that of the King James translation of the Bible. It also examines how the language was brought to the new world by the Elizabethans.