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Article: Reflections in Shakespeare translation.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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ABSTRACT
This article reverses the usual direction of translation studies to consider the benefits to native speakers of reading Shakespeare in translation. I raise six issues: first, text and textual bibliography; second, the ways that the translation of metaphor may alert the native speaker to secondary (even primary) associations in a text; thirdly, how this applies to social institutions, and the shift in context that comes with teaching Shakespeare from another point of view, e.g. Protestant and Catholic vocabulary in the plays. Fourth, I consider the related issues of spectacle and politics before, fifth, offering some general reflections on the pedagogic ...