I suspect they are referring to modern English translations of Shakespear's plays like the ones on this website: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakesp

I suspect they are referring to modern English translations of Shakespear's plays like the ones on this website: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translations https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translati... Or perhaps exactly those. Maybe the article author means that's how Shakespear is read by everyone today?