The Tempest: A Verse Translation
My verse translation of The Tempest matches Shakespeare's play line-by-line with the same syntactic complexity and vocabulary range as the original. All blank verse lines remain in verse with accurate and authentic iambic pentameter.
Play Statistics
Unique words in original: 3,135
Unique words in translation: 3,277
Excerpt
from Act 3, Scene 2
CALIBAN
Are you afraid?
STEPHANO
No, monster, not I.
CALIBAN
Be not afraid. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet tunes that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand strumming instruments
Will hum around my ears, and sometimes voices,
Though I have just awoken from long sleep,
Will make me sleep again, and in my dreams
The clouds will open up and drop on me
Such riches that when I awake, I cry
And beg to dream again.
STEPHANO
This is turning into a splendid kingdom, where music fills my court for free.
CALIBAN
When Prospero is destroyed.