Word: yeasting
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Shakespeare can not be said to have originated the historical drama; in fact he was hardly an originator in any direction. It was rather his strong point to develope what he found: into the dough which others made he put the yeast which caused it to rise. In this way he took the old Chronicles which existed before his time, and by varying adherence to them and departure from them developed his famous plays. He adhered to the Chronicles in so far as there is a stratum of historical fact in all of the dramas of which we are speaking...
...Cause he swallowed a yeast powder...