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Probably something completely different, but I think what you want is Shakespeare in modern English, which is a thing that exists: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/ h
by TillE 12y ago
Probably something completely different, but I think what you want is Shakespeare in modern English, which is a thing that exists:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/ http://nfs.sparknotes.com/
I've heard bits of Shakespeare in German, and I think it was pretty well done. Any good translation is going to effectively be a whole new work of art that tries to capture something of the essence of the original. But the beauty of Shakespeare is the language.
- bjterry 12y agoThat translation is pretty terrible. It's not a translation of the musicality and beauty of Shakespeare into modern English, it's a translation of Shakespeare into poorly written literal statements. When foreign translators are doing Shakespeare, they are trying to capture the whole essence, not just a literal extraction of what it's referring to. Example: Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharged with double cracks, So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. "Translated" to: > The new challenge scared them about as much as sparrows frighten eagles, or rabbits frighten a lion. To tell you the truth, they fought the new enemy with twice as much force as before; they were like cannons loaded with double ammunition.
- hyperpape 12y agoThat is halfway to Orwell's conversion of Ecclesiastes to bureaucratic English. Absolutely painful.