I have an assignment due soon and I thought it'd be neat if I converted my own short essay into old English like the type that Shakespeare would've used.
Is there any such online translator for this?
2007-02-27 12:44:48 · 2 answers · asked by I want my *old* MTV 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It doesn't have to be in iambic pentameters, just some of the terminology that would've been used back in his time.
Nothing has to rhyme, it just needs some of the older words. I'm trying to do the best I can but I think I'm going over the top with some of the older sayings in my own version.
2007-02-27 13:08:06 · update #1
Shakespeare is Modern English. Middle English was the language of Chaucer and Malory and was well before Shakespeare, starting after the Norman Conquest. Old English is the language of the Venerable Bede and was before Middle English.
If you want to write as Shakespeare did in much of his work, write in iambic pentameters with rhyming couplets at the end.
2007-02-27 12:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you happen to go to HEHS? Is this for your AP Lit class?
2007-03-01 15:40:32 · answer #2 · answered by htrap90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋