Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.Īnd forgive us our debts as we forgive our debters.Īnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ ‘Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Be þi wille don in herþe as it is dounin heuene.Īnd foryeue to us oure dettis þat is oure synnys as we foryeuen to oure dettouris þat is to men þat han synned in us.Īnd lede us not into temptacion but delyuere us from euyl.’Įasier, and perhaps you recognise it now, but only just? Look at the next one: ‘Oure fadir þat art in heuenes halwid be þi name Si þin nama gehalgod tobecume þin rice gewurþe þin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofonumĪnd forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendumĪnd ne gelæd þu us on costnunge ac alys us of yfele soþlice.’ĭo you recognise it? If not, try this one: Look at the following passage in Old English and try and read it: Old English is a completely different thing. His language is what is called Early Modern English. In the classification we have made of English language periods Shakespeare fits officially into the ‘modern’ category.
However, Shakespeare’s English is actually very similar to the English that we speak today, and in fact isn’t Old English at all! What makes Shakespeare’s language difficult isn’t the grammar or the vocabulary as much as the fact that it is written in verse, and therefore most of the words, phrases, sentences, and speeches have multiple meanings. When you pick up of one of the texts though, you may groan, and complain that they are too hard and need translating from Old English into Modern English. Although Shakespeare’s plays are four hundred years old, the stories they tell are still as exciting and relevant as they were to Shakespeare’s audience. This article discusses Shakespeare and Old English. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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