How Is Shakespear's World Different From The World Now?

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Shakespear's world then, is different from our world now because of 3 different key topics. The first topic is language, the english language has advanced very much since this time. There is a lot of words that are still the same but the way we use the words in a sentence, and the order they are. I've noticed studying this time period they said stuff very differently from the way we do now. For examample, "What do you read, my lord?" (Hamlet,2.2.191). However in todays modern world we would say, "Bruh, what are you reading?" Language has changed a ton since the development of cell phones and people make up new words all the time that if you were to go say in the Elizabethean time period they'd think, " Your mad!" It is the same way if you

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