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Apr 18, 2014 This week's theme Words coined after Shakespearean characters This week's words dogberry portia timon romeo prospero Detail from Prospero and Ariel Art: William Hamilton, 1797 Photo: Wikimedia A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg Prospero PRONUNCIATION: (PROS-puh-roh) MEANING: noun: Someone who is capable of influencing others' behavior or perceptions without their being aware of it. ETYMOLOGY: After Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan and a magician, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Earliest documented use: 1785. USAGE: "Melliora is the Prospero who engineers a return to social order entirely in accord with her desires." David Oakleaf (ed.), Eliza Haywood; Love in Excess; Broadview Press; 2000. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

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