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Gloomy
Popularized in Henry VI Part 1“ | But darkness and the gloomy shade of death | ” |
Shakespeare's fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe used the word gloomy to talk about a dreary person, while Big W.S. went for the word when talking about nature, life, and death. P.S. This is another case where Shakespeare changed the part of speech of a word to create a totally new one (gloomy started off as a verb). |
Tag: Henry VI Part 1