Reading Shakespeare can be challenging to help you better comprehend has work, you will first practice translating a few sentences into modern-day Endish. Below are lines from some
of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Read each line, then, in the space provided, translate it
into the English case today. The more comfortable you become with the language, the better
you will nderstand and appreciate fuis work.
1. But sok What light through yonder window breaks? Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene i
2 The lady do posest too much, methinks Hamlet, Act IIIScom)
3. Hans more than the showest, speak less than the knowest, lend less than thou owest." King Lear, Act I,
"But whence te is thy shop today? Why dont thou lead these men about the streets?" Jus Cacar,
5. "To se penchance to dream, there's the namet. Act III, cei)
6. "I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar won't her brat
7. “Methink’st thou art a general offence and every
Man should beat thee”.
8. “O happy horse to bear the weight of Antony... wot’st thou whom thou mov’st?
9. “Nay, an I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ th’ face again?
10. “I grant I am a women, but withal/ a women that lord Brutus took to wife. / I grant I am a women, but withal/ a women well-reputed, cato’s daughter”.