The rest of the play is in a vernacular, modern English.
We aim to give clear explanations of complex issues, in modern English.
I think that's why she refuses to speak modern English.
Towards the end of the 15th century a more modern English was starting to emerge.
In modern English the term is used to describe people with much political or business power.
It is only in this context that the term would be applied to modern English.
Most of the translations were done in modern contemporary English.
Like the modern English, they are beginning to be soft about their own hardness.
This is different than most word roots in modern standard English.
Such a word choice makes the gap interpretation easier to see in modern English.