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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.
This is a list of translators of one or more works of William Shakespeare into respective languages. Translator Target language A. de Herz: ... Modern English:
As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. At 27 letters, it is the longest word in the English language to strictly alternate between consonants and vowels. [1]
John Florio was born in London in 1552 [1] or 1553 [2] [3] [4] 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" [15] ("Italian in mouth, English in chest"); Manfred Pfister [] glosses this as, "in his native language an Italian, in his heart an ...
Shakespeare added hundreds of new words to the English language, including many commonly used words and colorful expressions that we still use today. Shakespeare added hundreds of new words to the ...
Abraham Regelson – translator of literature from English and Yiddish; Yitzhak Salkinsohn – relatively early (19th century) translator of Milton and Shakespeare; Abraham Shlonsky – translator of Shakespeare, Gogol, and others; Adin Steinsaltz – translator of dozens of volumes of Talmud from Aramaic; Shaul Tchernichovsky – prolific ...
The Shakespearean macaronic line "Et Tu Brutè?" in the First Folio from 1623 This 1888 painting by William Holmes Sullivan is named Et tu Brute and is located in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre . Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar ( Joseph Holland , center) addresses the conspirators ...
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: