How do you rebuild a 400-year-old topical joke in a new culture and with none of the same words?
How does Romeo and Juliet's first meeting unfold if they can't mention pilgrims?
What does Taming of the Shrew sound like in a language where every noun has a gender?
Why might Hamlet be even longer in Japanese?
And why are Lady Macbeth's pronouns such a problem?
What does it mean to translate Shakespeare? When we change all the poetry, all the wordplay, all the syntax – all the words! – is it still Shakespeare? And is it still any good?
Daniel Hahn, seasoned translator and Shakespeare fanatic, will change the way you think about language itself. Ranging widely across Shakespeare's works, and across the world's languages, this book explores what translators have done and what is possible.
No knowledge of any particular language is required, though a bit of patience for the nerdiest of close reading is desirable. This micro-attention to language will reveal some of the complexities of Shakespeare; and by using his work as its subject, with the extraordinary pressures that he puts on language, it will reveal even more about the craft of translation, and the power of words themselves.
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- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Also by Daniel Hahn
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Hvis du ku glæde mig ved at tale til mig . . .
- 1. this storie/The World may reade in me
- 2. Comment mettre cela en vers?
- 3. O teu beijo é um soneto
- 4. ये दोनों एण्टीफोलस शक्ल से एक-से ही हैं
- 5. . . . Om nieuwe raadzelen mijn zelven in te scherpen
- 6. 그가 얘기를 다시 하게 만들겠습니다
- 7. Milý pane, mluvte i vy též jenom jako dřiv
- 8. Podrę wiersz. Proza lepiej usposobi
- 9. Սպասի՛ր, շ նչ ա՛ռ
- 10. Thou ferlies at my words, but haud thee still
- 11. Ni chaiff peryglon fy nychrynu ddim
- 12. Uthando ayilothando
- 13. จะเลยยกเอาเปนญาติวงศาของเจ้าเองเสียกระมัง
- 14. jIH jIH 'e' yInISQo'. 'ej chochoH 'e' yInIDQo'
- 15. እዚሁ ላይ ነው ችግሩ
- Chapter 16
- 17. нуждата превръща всичко . . .
- 18. 不用多说了
- 19. Und sein so schlichter Schein herbergt Verrat
- 20. Todas sus palabras son meritorias
- 21. kad jūsų iždas kupinas žodžių
- 22. קוקנדיק אפ מיר, װער נ שארפזיניק אויכ אנדערע
- 23. Red’ gelahrt on weise
- 24. che l’ordine va spezzato . . .
- 25. Таква музика е слатка сал
- 26. 正当な順序の継続
- 27. ти људи бесконачног језика
- 28. ანუ რაოდენ ჩვენთვის ჯერერთ უცნობ ენაზედ
- 29. أرجوك ألا تفرضى القيود على لسان
- 30. Jó hírnév nevu˝ áru
- 31. ते हे सुंदर नवं जग!
- 32. αν δεν την καταλαβαίνετε ούτε σεις, δεν πειράζει
- 33. bir kaç diyarda /Aynı dili kullanmakla
- 34. Why, now you speak as I would have you speak
- 35. O, daardie verruklike speeltuig van haar gedagtes
- 36. . . . galdramann, ramman að kynngi
- 37. No coneixem ses obres?
- 38. Сколь естеству твои дела противны
- 39. doni al li sian vocˇon per sia propra lango
- Epilogue: If this be magic . . .
- Appendix
- Further Reading and References
- Acknowledgements
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