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Modern English: Martin Hilský ... List of translations of works by William Shakespeare; References This page was last edited on 19 April 2024, at ...
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
This is a list of translations of works by William Shakespeare. Each table is arranged alphabetically by the specific work, then by the language of the translation. Translations are then sub-arranged by date of publication (earliest-latest). Where possible, the date of publication given is the date of the first edition by that translator.
Sir Thomas North (28 May 1535 – c. 1604) was an English translator, military officer, lawyer, and justice of the peace. His translation into English of Plutarch's Parallel Lives is notable for being the main source text used by William Shakespeare for his Roman plays.
John Florio was born in London in 1552 [16] or 1553 [17] [18] [19] but he grew up and lived in continental Europe until the age of 19. The only portrait of Florio we have, the frontispiece to the New World of Words of 1611, presents him as "Italus ore, Anglus pector" [20] ("Italian in mouth, English in chest"); Manfred Pfister [] glosses this as, "in his native language an Italian, in his ...
Literary Translation : Theory and Practice, 1997, 2002. The Translator's Guide, 2000, 2004. Modern Translation Theory, 2003. Dictionary of English Abbreviations and Acronyms, Longmans, 2014. On Translating Shakespeare (in English) forthcoming. Arabization and Translation of terms in the Human Sciences (forthcoming).
G. B. Harrison (14 July 1894 – 1 November 1991) was one of the leading Shakespeare experts of his time and the editor of the Shakespeare Penguin Classics.During his professional career, Harrison was an English professor at both Queen's University and the University of Michigan.
In Shakespeare's day, English grammar, spelling, and pronunciation were less standardised than they are now, [232] and his use of language helped shape modern English. [233] Samuel Johnson quoted him more often than any other author in his A Dictionary of the English Language, the first serious work of its type. [234]