Every living language changes, Differences in pronunciation and in linguistic preferences are often apparent even in the speech of parents and their children, so it is not surprising that the language of Shakespeare’s plays should be markedly different from the English we use almost four centuries later. In the sixteenth century, the English language was only beginning to be used by creative writers. Previously, Latin and French had been considered more suitable for literary expression than English, and consequently the English language had not been as fully developed as it later became. The main differences between Shakespearean and modern English can, for convenience, be considered under such categories as mobility of word classes, vocabulary loss, verb forms, pronouns, prepositions, multiple negation and spelling and punctuation.