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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-08-31 03:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #2433 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2433 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-08-31 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not evil, but Chaucer is written in Middle English and with a few changes to the accent makes sense as a poem--but they generally have to have all the jokes explained because the language has changed its usage and verbage since then in some cases.

Beowulf was written in Old English, which is way more like German than English today and is more or less incomprehensible to a modern day English speaker.

Best play-translation I ever read was Shakespeare put into Cold War terms. I damn near died laughing. Once you understand what's going on it's often hysterical.

(Anonymous) 2013-08-31 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
In my British Lit course in college, our professor read us Beowulf in the original while we followed along with the translation and it was MAGICAL. There's something so lovely about the lilt of language that I have never seen a translation capture. It was so perfect.
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[personal profile] ariakas 2013-09-01 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose you recall who wrote the Shakespeare as Cold War drama? This is relevant to my interests.

(Anonymous) 2013-09-03 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
ntayrt and laaaaaaaaaaaaaate but I think they saw this version?

http://www.goldstar.com/events/seattle-wa/henry-v