Fun:Conservative Shakespeare Project

As of 2024, there is no fully conservative translation of Shakespeare which satisfies the following guidelines:


 * 1) Framework against Stratfordian Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by Stratfordian bias
 * 2) Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" characters, and other modern emasculation of Shakespeare, such as women playing women's roles; updating names which have a change in gender, such as "Ariel"
 * 3) Combat Liberal Censorship: combating liberal censorship by using powerful conservative terms, such as "gun" rather than "dagger"; using modern political terms, such as "socialism" rather than "labor"
 * 4) Clarify Free Market Plays: explaining the numerous economic plays with their full free-market meaning, e.g., Love's Labour's Lost = Socialism's Deceit Unprofitable
 * 5) Exclude Later-Inserted Stratfordian Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal-glove-maker's-son passages that are not authentic, such as the "quality of mercy" speech
 * 6) Credit Open-Mindedness of Nobles: crediting open-mindedness, often found in nobles like Edmund and Don John
 * 7) Prefer Oxfordian Conciseness over Stratfordian Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the Stratfordian style of high word-to-substance ratio

Thus, a project has begun among members of Conservapedia to translate the works of Shakespeare in accordance with these principles.

Hamlet
An excerpt from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as translated by William Schlafspeare: