ABSTRACT
OVER TWO thousand years pass before unquestioned greatness returns to the theatre. Plague, war, and famine have wiped out much of the world’s population and, for a time, theatre itself. Then a mighty England emerges as ruler of the known globe. A queen of majesty and diplomacy guides this venture, and the English language explodes, increasing by a fourth, with over ten thousand new words added in less than a century. Never, before or since, has a language grown so astonishingly. The drama is where the new words soar.
