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Elizabethan English was Shakespeare's language and it was English so "I" was "I". Examples are too numerous to list exhaustively, but as a sample "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent." (Macbeth), "I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (King Lear), "I am as constant as the northern star" (Julius Caesar), "I am a Jew" (Merchant of Venice).
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoElizabethan English is still Modern English. You just say "I". Sometimes Shakespeare uses the word "methinks", which means "I think", but that is a unique case. And he uses "I think" almost ten times as often.
Shakespeare's language was English the same as yours and mine. As a consequence, the word "I" was "I", as in "I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do' since I have cause and will and strength and means to do't" (Hamlet). Another example: "I am a Jew" (Merchant of Venice). And another: "I am as constant as the northern star" (Julius Caesar)
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