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Why do some people think that Shakespearean language is Old English?
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They do not know what Old English is. If they understood that Old English was the language in which Beowulf was written and which disappeared about 1100 they would know that Shakespeare could not have written in or even understood it.
People tend to get caught up in the reality of their own generation, and anything that belonged to an earlier generation gets lumped together as "old". Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, The Beatles--it's all "old". I mean the Beatles wrote "Please Please Me" and not "Plz plz me" so it must have been Old English right?
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