No you won’t. Shakespeare is “old” English. Language changes with culture, culture changes with language. We don’t speak like that anymore, even if the roots are the same-which, can be argued here in many ways. The time period was much more “romantic” in art form and there was also very little room for free speech.
Different time, different meanings.
“old” English.
The English language is not constant, it changes. Language changes because people change-some words have been modified, others flat out don’t exist.
For example-Fag once meant a bundle of twigs
Now, it is a slang term for cigarette.
Now, it’s used as an insult.
Language relys on context. We aren’t in Shakespeare’s world anymore. We’re far from it. It is old English. Not dead. Old.
(Source: fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo)
