What is you stole my crown in Elizabethan English?

Answer 1

Shakespeare might have had his characters say this in a number of different ways, the simplest of which would be to have the character say, "You stole my crown." Hamlet, when saying that his uncle stole the crown calls him "a cutpurse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his pocket." Later on, he says he "popped in between the election and my hopes." Richard III, planning to steal the crown himself, says, "Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down." In Henry IV Part II the Prince takes the crown from his father, believing him to be dead. The king wakes and seeing the crown gone, says "Where is the crown? Who took it from my pillow" and hearing that it was the Prince, says "But wherefore did he take away the crown?" When speaking to the Prince he says, "Thou hast stol'n that which after some hours were thine without offence." which is, in fact, saying "You stole my crown". Later, when talking about how he himself stole the crown from the previous king, he says, "God knows, my son, by what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown."

Shakespeare language" is not a different language at all--Shakespeare spoke English, which is why one of his characters might have said, "You stole my crown", one of the ways of saying this in English. You might try to imitate Shakespeare's style but before you did, you would have to ask yourself what the relationship between the parties is (are they equals? a parent and child? lovers? a master and servant?), and whether this particular dialogue is to be written in blank verse or prose. If it is in verse, you have to worry about getting the rhythm right, which could cause you to scramble the syntax or leave out syllables. You wouldn't have to do that with prose.