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Originally posted by pinkgoth2
1: Everyone did that in his time. It was kinda this english revolution thing, because everyone who had something to say said it in latin and english was worth nada.
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Umm... I think you'll find that the vast majority of ordinary people (IE not pretentious playwrights) spoke English. And normal (for the time) English, too, not the twisted version Wobbledagger purveyed...
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2: Considering Shakespeare had to fight for the attention of the people coming to watch his plays, I find that quite an assumption 
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Sorry, I think you misunderstand me. I wasn't making an assumption, I was stating a fact...
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5: Eh? I'm lost now. Sorry, I'm really lost. Cliché as in how to make plays? If you mean that: It's not Shakespeare's work, it existed before his time, and was even stricter in the past.
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What I meant was that before Shakespeare, Theatre was not constrained into the same basic set of storylines... Before Shakespeare, plots were permitted to be imaginative, but for about three hundred years afterwards, they were forced to fit into the same clichés that he created... It's only recently that people have been able to break out of them...
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I think school can be quite entertaining and fun.
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As I said before, I not only think it
can be entertaining and fun, but that it generally
is. But anything has its off-days, and Shakespeare is definately Education's...
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I can understand why people don't like [the language], as a personal opinion of theirs.
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I don't dislike it out of opinion, I dislike it out of principle, because everybody now believes that that was how people spoke in those days, which is a total misconception...