: Re: Can you get a work translated into simple modern English published? I am wondering if you could translate a book from Shakespeare to simple modern English and have it published somehow. As far

There's no legal barrier to this, all such works would be out of copyright (assuming your version isn't too reliant on a previous modernization still under copyright). And, in fact, a quick Google search shows numerous hits for "Shakespeare in easy English." However, the questions for a publisher or a reader would be "Why this writer? Why this version?" Typically modernizations are either academic editions by learned scholars, or popular editions by well-known writers. If you aren't either one of these, you're unlikely to draw much interest.

Also, Shakespeare is NOT Old English. It's relatively modern English, and still perfectly readable for most people, so there's not the same demand for a translation as for something like Beowulf which actually is in Old English.

Your best bet is probably to write a new book inspired by the old one. At least that way you have a compelling reason that the author needs to be you.

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