Wilf Popoff
November 10, 2015 by Wilf Popoff | 4 Comments on Wasted Words: Don’t Meddle With Shakespeare
You might think that, as an editor, I would endorse a plan to rewrite Shakespeare in modern English. After all, as the advocates of this undertaking argue, Shakespeare’s language cannot be understood by contemporary audiences, and our profession is all about understanding. However, this has little to do with editing. If Shakespeare’s writing comes across […]
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