Science and technology researcher Ron Freedman is half a millennium behind the times when he identifies the Stratford Festival's "core technology" as Old English (Forsooth! Shakespeare Benefits The Bottom Line - March 9). Old English was long gone, supplanted by Norman-influenced Middle English, when Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Shakespeare penned his first play more than two centuries after Middle English itself had given way to what we now call Early Modern English. Forsooth, indeed! And yikes!