Now, when I ask my students and followers, what is the one thing or the few things that they would like to improve about their English, they usually mention something related to either pronunciation, or flow, or grammar.
By the middle of the century, revered usage writers in Britain such as Eric Partridge and Ernest Gowers were warning of the subjunctive as " a hallmark of officialese" which had " a formal, even pedantic air" .
But we do know that this surviving play contains some of Shakespeare's most insightful comments about language, and specifically the different registers of English at the time.