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September 26, 2014

Over the years No Sweat Shakespeare users have asked us to translate many quotes from Hamlet into plain English. The list below links to the…

October 2, 2014

Macbeth Is a 2006 Australian adaptation of William Shakespeare s . It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast led by Sam…

March 9, 2014

The unique Middle English prose life of Alexander the Great (the prose Alexander) is the first item in Lincoln Cathedral Library MS. 91 (Lincoln…

March 28, 2015

Subscribe to our Question of the Week: Question: What is the Modern King James Version (MKJV)? Answer: When people search for “modern King…

May 9, 2015

Read Macbeth’s “ Is this a dagger which I see before me ” soliloquy below with modern English translation & analysis. Spoken by Macbeth…

September 9, 2015

A passage from Beowulf in the original Old English and in four modern English translations. Old English: Gewat ða neosian, syþðan niht becom…

May 24, 2015

At a few minutes before midnight Hamlet and Horatio went out into the cold night and climbed up to the watch platform and joined Marcellus. ‘It’s…

September 24, 2015

From Macbeth. Ed. Thomas Marc Parrott. New York: American Book Co. In order to enjoy to the full the poetry of such a play as Macbeth the student…

July 14, 2015

She did her best in the way of flogging him while an infant - for duties to her well - regulated mind were always pleasures, and babies, like…

August 28, 2015

Today is National Poetry Day, and we gently suggest that you celebrate by reading a poem or two. Not sure which poem to go for? Well, for those…

April 21, 2015

In a dark cavern, a bubbling cauldron hisses and spits, and the three witches suddenly appear onstage. They circle the cauldron, chanting spells…