What Lanuage Did William Shakespeare Use?

Answer 1

Shakespeare wrote all his plays and poetry in Modern English, the same language as we use today. The reason it sometimes sounds strange (apart from the fact that it is poetry which always sounds strange) is that it is an earlier form of Modern English called Early Modern English. There are very few differences between Early Modern English and any other dialect of English--some differences in the meanings of words primarily.

Answer 2

Shakespeare wrote in English. His style is highly poetic and uses a large vocabulary which makes it hard for some people to understand. Some people call the language he uses "heightened language".

Answer 3

Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English. What makes Shakespeare hard to read is that he wrote in verse and therefore most of his sentences have more than one meaning.

Answer 4

All kinds. Everything from street talk to rhyming poetry.

Answer 5

He used Elizabethan English. Shakespeare wrote in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Answer 6

He wrote in English. But it was poetic English, even when he wrote lines for people to say in plays.