Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe

Márta Minier; Lily Kahn

Hamlet Translations
Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe

Edited by Márta Minier and Lily Kahn

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

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10 December 2021 • 264pp

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This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare's Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cultures at various historical moments and for different purposes: performance, reading, artistic experimentation, language-learning, nation-building and personal identity-formation. There are many Hamlets, and rather than straightforward replicas of the original (indeed, which one?) they are texts that carry traces of their own time and place. The volume is international in scope, offering perspectives on Hamlet translations into Icelandic, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Welsh, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Greek, Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish and Slovak. It also examines recent Hamlet performances in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, such as Romania, Lithuania and China, a Shona-language production from the UK and a non-verbal performance from the US. The volume covers a lengthy time span, beginning with a reference to the medieval Nordic cultural context in which the play’s story originated, and ending with a twenty-first-century theatre company’s Hamlet with no words at all.

Márta Minier is Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of South Wales. Lily Kahn is Professor in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at UCL.

Reviews:

‘This is a rich and valuable anthology about a fascinating topic. It should be useful not just to scholars of translation, but also to research on the play in general, as each of these iterations teaches us about this strange and manifold tragedy.’ — Michael Saenger, Translation Studies advance publication online (full text online)

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1	Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe Márta Minier, Lily Kahn	Cite
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2	Icelandic Hamlets: Translation and Performance Martin S. Regal	Cite
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3	Translating Hamlet in Brazil Marcia A. P. Martins	Cite
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4	Investigating the Three Welsh Hamlets Roger Owen	Cite
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5	Something is Rotten in the State of Portugal Helena Agarez Medeiros	Cite
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6	The Role of Hamlet in Finnish Nation-Building, 1879-84 Nely Keinänen	Cite
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7	Domesticating Techniques in the First Hebrew Translation of Hamlet Lily Kahn	Cite
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8	Rhetorics of Power: On a Slovak Translation of Hamlet from the 1970s Jana B. Wild	Cite
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9	The Five Roads towards the Slovene Hamlet Marija Zlatnar Moe	Cite
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10	Hamlet’s Greek Metamorphoses: The Case of Four Different Greek Versions of Shakespeare’s Hero in Translation Vasso Giannakopoulou	Cite
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11	The Rhetoric of Mastery and Discipleship in the Hungarian Canon of Hamlet Translations Márta Minier	Cite
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12	What’s Wrong with the ‘Nunnery’: Hamlet in Beijing (1989 and 2008) Yichen Yang	Cite
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13	Contesting Censorship: Hamlet as Political Intervention Jozefina Komporaly	Cite
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14	Against ‘Glocalization’: Issues of Intercultural Performance in Two Gents’ Production Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) Carmen Levick	Cite
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15	Not Translating Hamlet (Hamletas) for an Anglophone Audience: Eimuntas Nekrošius’s Lithuanian ‘Prince of Denmark’ at the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival in London Aleksandra Sakowska	Cite
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16	Hamlet without Words, Words, Words Sheila Cavanagh	Cite
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Minier, Márta, and Lily Kahn (eds), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe, Transcript, 16 (Legenda, 2021)

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Hamlet TranslationsPrisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe

Edited by Márta Minier and Lily Kahn

Hamlet Translations
Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe