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Yes. Modern English as a language has been spoken since about 1500. It was the only language Shakespeare and his audiences spoke and is of course the same language we speak today. Some people find Shakespeare's plays to be difficult primarily because he used a huge vocabulary and a poetic style to write his plays. He also wrote long and complex sentences from time to time.

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