Reading Shakespeare can be challenging to help you better comprehend has work, you will first practice translating a few sentences into modern-day Endish. Below are lines from some
of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Read each line, then, in the space provided, translate it
into the English case today. The more comfortable you become with the language, the better
you will nderstand and appreciate fuis work.
1. But sok What light through yonder window breaks? Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene i
2 The lady do posest too much, methinks Hamlet, Act IIIScom)
3. Hans more than the showest, speak less than the knowest, lend less than thou owest." King Lear, Act I,
"But whence te is thy shop today? Why dont thou lead these men about the streets?" Jus Cacar,
5. "To se penchance to dream, there's the namet. Act III, cei)
6. "I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar won't her brat
7. “Methink’st thou art a general offence and every
Man should beat thee”.
8. “O happy horse to bear the weight of Antony... wot’st thou whom thou mov’st?
9. “Nay, an I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ th’ face again?
10. “I grant I am a women, but withal/ a women that lord Brutus took to wife. / I grant I am a women, but withal/ a women well-reputed, cato’s daughter”.

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.