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Didn't Shakespeare write in english

>>22383331
In le quirky le olde english. What's a translation into normal english?

>>22383332
None. You wouldn’t be reading Shakespeare.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100

>>22383335
Huh? What do you mean by this? That somehow his bad english is a part of his charm?

>retarded bait thread
Can we please get a serious thread about Shakespeare for once? Fuck it, I'll make it myself.

"I need a translation of Shakespeare into English"

>>22383332
He wrote in high English which is what we still use today.

Hijacking this thread
Which play would be a good start for getting into Shakespeare

>>22383752
Macbeth. Don't question it, just read Macbeth and then watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZIo6IH_Qg
You could do it the other way around, too, but whatever suits you best.

>>22383827
I'll read it first then watch it
Thanks man

>>22383322
don't read Shakespeare, just watch a performance of his plays, it's the only way you're going to get anything out of it.

>>22384170
What in the world...

>>22383322
The Schlegel/Tieck classic imho

>>22383332
What the fuck. You can understand his works well if you put in a little effort.

>>22383863
Don't do it man, Lincoln watched that play and he end up dead.

>>22383332
>mfw i don't even

>>22384170
You do need to see the plays. But that doesn't invalidate reading them.
This is best done in a group, with the parts split between the participants. In fact this was a common pastime in the Georgian and Regency periods.

>>22383332
They don’t translate him, they just standardize his spelling.

>>22384908
Let's not pretend that Shakespeare is highly comprehensible without reference materials
You gonna sit there and tell me that mere effort will allow you to understand this exchange from Love's Labor's Lost?

>HOLOFERNES
>Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his
>discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye
>ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general
>behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is
>too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it
>were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.

>SIR NATHANIEL
>A most singular and choice epithet.

>HOLOFERNES
>He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer
>than the staple of his argument. I abhor such
>fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and
>point-devise companions; such rackers of
>orthography, as to speak dout, sine b, when he should
>say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,
>e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;
>half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh
>abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he
>would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of
>insanie: ne intelligis, domine? to make frantic,
>lunatic.

>SIR NATHANIEL
>Laus Deo, bone intelligo.

>HOLOFERNES
>Bon, bon, for bene! Priscian a little scratch'd,
>'twill serve.

And yes, I do understand the irony of my choosing this excerpt.

>>22383332
It's literally Modern English you twat. You can handle learning a few words that a ESL teen won't understand. The girls will be impressed too (the ones that count).

>>22384996
>In fact this was a common pastime in the Georgian and Regency periods
V G H!!!!

>>22383332
>>22385015
you are a complete brainlet. actual 13-18 year old British school children read the original Shakespeare and understand it perfectly fine

>>22385015
ESL here. You are retarded.

>>22383332
Zoomers' brains would explode if they tried reading Spenser or Chaucer.

>>22383322
Las Obras Completas de Guillermo Shakespeare en Español traducido por Don Tacos

>>22386084
Dime como esta la mañana y talvez te comparo con el verano

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