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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Why then, 'tis good to post: ye Shakespeare threade
 
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PatMarshall
Apr 6, 2009

Lankiveil posted:

Middle English is difficult for most native speakers of English too. It makes a lot more sense watching it performed; a lot of the disdain for Shakespeare IMHO comes from making kids learn it through reading rather than seeing it performed.

Shakespeare was not writing in Middle English.

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