>>>>>>How about Shakespeare? I understand that when he's read in foreign languages they use the archaic forms of those languages to match his form of English.
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>>>>>I can not understand him :( I love his sonets and all his plays, but I read them in Russian when I was young and memorized some. But it's hard to read in English, so I didn't repeat my attempts after few unsuccessful tries.
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>>>>Maybe you cannot understand him in archaic English but I was asking if his plays, in Russian, are written in an archaic Russian, as they spoke in the 17th century.
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>>>No, they are written in modern Russian.
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>>Shame, so you've never heard the poetry read in iambic pentameters? I've spoken to other non anglophones who have said that it's written in the archaic form of their langs's. How about you others?
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>Well, the rhyme is close to Shakespeare. At least once I was saying Hamlet's monologue in Russian to my manager and he told me that the rhyme is very similar. But the language itself is modern, not the 17th century language like in pre-Pushkin poets language...

A bit like John Cleese in "Fish Called Wanda", with Jamie Lee-Curtis, as he's stripping off and wowing here with his Russian poetry?