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Check out the spellings in the original folios though: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeare-in-print/first-fo...

Our school books have all had some (very helpful) translation work applied to the original text.

Spelling fixes feels like an "allowed" cheat though IMHO. You are still with the original. Spelling wasn't very standardised and you want to get the word across. Changing word order and idioms though, then we are veering into "translation" territory.

A good middle point would be Chaucer then who had Middle English vs Beowolf''s Old and Shakespeare's Early Modern. The Canterbury Tales is frequently found in translations now, but that's also due to the lack of spelling standardization until 17th and 18th centuries in addition to just vast vocabulary differences.

I'm pretty sure English changed a lot more than French from the same period.