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| | :21 And the sone seyde to him, Fadir, I haue synned a3ens heuene, and bifore thee ; and now I am not worthi to be clepid thi sone. | | :21 And the sone seyde to him, Fadir, I haue synned a3ens heuene, and bifore thee ; and now I am not worthi to be clepid thi sone. |
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| − | Shakespeare, the greatest playwright in world history, wrote in English around 1600. He used modern English, but the language has changed much in 400 years since then. His language was easily understood then, but some parts are difficult to understand today. Here is part of Marc Antony's famous speech in Shakespeare's famous play, ''Julius Caesar'': | + | Shakespeare, the greatest playwright in world history, wrote in English around 1600. He used modern English, but the language has changed much in 400 years since then. His language was easily understood then, but some parts are difficult to understand today. The term "copyright" did not exist yet, and Shakespeare never published any of his plays in writing because he had no legal protection against someone copying his work; all his works were written and preserved after he died. Here is the beginning of Mark Antony's famous speech in Shakespeare's famous play, ''Julius Caesar'':<ref>http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act3-script-text-julius-caesar.htm</ref> |
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| − | :<need good quote here> | + | :Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; |
| | + | :I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. |
| | + | :The evil that men do lives after them; |
| | + | :The good is oft interred with their bones; |
| | + | :So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus |
| | + | :Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: |
| | + | :If it were so, it was a grievous fault, |
| | + | :And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. |
| | + | :Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- |
| | + | :For Brutus is an honourable man; |
| | + | :So are they all, all honourable men-- |
| | + | :Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. |
| | + | :He was my friend, faithful and just to me: |
| | + | :But Brutus says he was ambitious; |
| | + | :And Brutus is an honourable man. |
| | + | :He hath brought many captives home to Rome |
| | + | :Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: |
| | + | :Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? |
| | + | :When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: |
| | + | :Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: |
| | + | :Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; |
| | + | :And Brutus is an honourable man. |
| | + | :You all did see that on the Lupercal |
| | + | :I thrice presented him a kingly crown, |
| | + | :Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? |
| | + | :Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; |
| | + | :And, sure, he is an honourable man. |
| | + | :I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, |
| | + | :But here I am to speak what I do know. |
| | + | :You all did love him once, not without cause: |
| | + | :What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? |
| | + | :O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, |
| | + | :And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; |
| | + | :My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, |
| | + | :And I must pause till it come back to me. |
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| | + | By the end of this famous speech Marc Antony had turned the crowd in favor of Caesar and against his murderer, Brutus. |
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| | ==Renaissance== | | ==Renaissance== |