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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I personally find 1600 English to be annoying archaic (yes, including the bard), but everything from the late 1600's to present, except for occasional passages meant to reproduce spoken dialect, reads to me as my own present language.
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For me, anything before 1930 might as well be Chaucer.
Speaking of Shakespeare, seeing Romeo+Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio was probably the first time I really understood that story. Maybe it's a matter of context.