Where can I find a free Modern English translation of Shakspeares “Macbeth”?
A complete verse translation of Macbeth is available from Full Measure Press at http://www.fullmeasurepress.com./ Inspired some years ago by the same John MacWhorter article cited above by Roger Kovaciny, I have so far translated 5 of Shakespeare’s plays—King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado about Nothing.
Linguist John McWhirter said it hasn’t been done yet. It would require someone with major literary and poetic talent, mastery of the English language and the Elizabethan dialect. Interestingly enough, foreigners often understand Shakespeare better than we do, because it’s translated into modern German or French or whatever, not the French or German of the sixteenth century.
