" I have to question why he hasn't been replaced with a more contemporary author. It seems to me his version of English is rated superior."
No, that's silly. His writing is rated superior, not his "version" of English. There were many other writers who wrote in precisely the same "version" of Elizabethan English, but you do not revere these writers. This should be enough to prove that it wasn't the good fortune of capturing the language at its peak moment of development that made Shakespeare a great writer. It was the inner artist, not his mastery of thees and thous.
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