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Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English is a scholarly compilation that includes Shakespeare's classic comedies. The book offers a modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearean text, allowing readers to compare and contrast the two versions. It is intended for those who wish to explore Shakespeare's comedies in a more accessible format while still engaging with the original language. more

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

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“Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.”

“The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.”

“Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.”