1. From The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Modern English?"
2. From The New Yorker: "Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language"
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Shakespeare's Language Modernized
A lot of you wrote this week about film adaptations that modernized Shakespeare's traditional language, changing the Iambic Pentameter and Elizabethan English into more contemporary, easier-to-understand, prose. This week, a famous Shakespeare festival in Oregon announced that it would be hiring playwrights to modernize the language of all of Shakespeare's plays. Two articles follow which comment on this decision, the first criticizing it and the second downplaying that criticism.
1. From The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Modern English?"
2. From The New Yorker: "Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language"
1. From The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Modern English?"
2. From The New Yorker: "Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language"
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