ABSTRACT
William Shakespeare’s romantic spirit may possibly no longer charm a scientific age, his loose scenic structure may be unsuited to the conventions of modern stages, but his style is a living force. He was the greatest writer of an age which shrank from plain simplicity and loved flexibility and vigour. Shakespeare's style is perhaps his most enduring claim to fame. Elizabethan English was neither uniform nor exact. Even its accidence was uncertain. Shakespeare confused the use of "who," "which" and "whom"; and could employ on occasion the'-s' of the third person singular, present tense, of the verb in the plural. The language of Shakespeare is of inexhaustible interest. His idiom is the proudest and most splendid of all English writers. We forgive him his occasional tortuosities, nay, we forget them, for the richness of his imagery and diction, and the sweetness of his music.
