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Did people really talk the way Shakespeare wrote? Why or why not? Why did he write the way he did? Provide detail!

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It is partially true that people talked the way Shakespeare had wrote. Back then people did not speak in blank verse and since it was a play their speech was exaggerated. However, it is true that people did use vocabulary like “Thy” and “Thine”.
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