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William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play. [146]
Realizing the immense benefits of a Bible that was more easily accessible to the average reader, and responding to the criticisms of the Living Bible, the American Bible Society extended the Good News for Modern Man to the Good News Bible (1976) by adding the Old Testament, in this more readable style. This translation has gone on to become one ...
The name Hamlet occurs in the form Amleth in a 13th-century book of Danish History written by Saxo Grammaticus, popularised by François de Belleforest as L'histoire tragique d'Hamlet, and appearing in the English translation as "Hamblet". The story of Amleth is assumed to originate in Old Norse or Icelandic poetry from several centuries earlier.
Expanded Bible EXB Modern English 2011 The base text is a modified version of the New Century Version. Offers alternate translations alongside the main translation Ferrar Fenton Bible: Modern English 1903 Masoretic Text and Westcott-Hort: Free Bible Version: FBV Modern English 2018 Novum Testamentum Graece [10]
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Early Modern English Bible translations are of between about 1500 and 1800, the period of Early Modern English. This was the first major period of Bible translation into the English language. This period began with the introduction of the Tyndale Bible. [10] [self-published source?] The first complete edition of his New Testament was in 1526.
The Modern English Version (MEV) is an English translation of the Bible begun in 2005 and completed in 2014. [1] The work was edited by James F. Linzey , and is an update of the King James Version (KJV), re-translated from the Masoretic Text and the Textus Receptus .