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This article presents the analysis on the colors used by W. Shakespeare in Sonnets 1-126 dedicated to a young man, and their translation in Samuil Marshak’s and Khamit Yergaliev’s variants. The most frequently used colors in the Sonnets 1-126 of the English writer are revealed in this work. Excerpts from the Sonnets with colors using are given and compared with their Russian and Kazakh translations. The purpose of this study is a detailed analysis in three variants of the colors appeared in W. Shakespeare’s sonnets 1-126. In the process of scientific work, the differences and similarities of the translated variants, as well as the features of each writer, are determined. The idea of the article is to compare the translation of colors in these Sonnets, to identify the colors most frequently used by the author and by the translators, to allocate the colors into thematic groups of sonnets proposed by A. Anikst. The scientific significance of this work lies in the insufficiency of research on the interpretation of colors in translated variants of W. Shakespeare’s sonnets. The practical significance of the study is determined by the usefulness of the presented data and results in the classes on the theory and practice of translation, comparative lexicology and grammar. In the article, the methods of analysis and synthesis, the sorting method, the comparative method were widely used and led to corresponding results. This research work will be able to give direction for further research on the analysis of the translated variants of the Sonnets, the translation of English colors into Russian and Kazakh languages. Keywords: translation of the Sonnets, indirect translation, colors translation, complex colors interpretation, the thematic groups of the Sonnets, Shakespeare’s color palette, translation transformations, comparative analysis.