Why did shakespeare use his type of language in his plays?
Answer Alex, This is an odd question. The easiest answer is that he used the language of the time. People really spoke like that. That is true. There are however two additional elements to the way in which he wrote. 1) Poetics – some parts of his plays are in verse and in those parts the language conforms to rhyme patterns of the times. They were not difficult – the plays were intended to be understood by the commonest of men. 2) Language play. Shakespeare played with language. It is part of the way in which many people use language. Joss Whedon, who wrote Buffy The Vampire Slayer uses language in exactly the same way Shakespeare did. Take the meaning and twist the words in an amusing and satisfying way. He played. He did it because it was fun and because it was useful. That is personal opinion but he influenced us all….the same twisting of words resulted in the horrendous fad language of business, in new slang, in our obsession with portmanteaus (sticking two words together to make
