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This is the second of a pair of articles addressing the relationship between Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from the Underground and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The first article considered the similarities between the two texts, using David Magarshack’s 1968 English translation of the Notes, before discussing the wider phenomenon of Hamletism in nineteenth-century Russia. In this article, the author focuses...
While theatre has always been the major force generating new translations of Shakespeare’s plays, the prerequisite assuring a successful (i.e. theatrically functional) rendering is the translator’s awareness of the theatrical potential of poetic drama. The combination of poetic and dramatic skills on the part of the translator, coupled with the interpretative reading that underlies all translation,...
This article shows how the language of Shakespeare’s plays has been rendered into Catalan in three especially significant periods: the late 19th century, the early 20th century, and the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The first section centres on the contrast between natural and unnatural language in Hamlet, and considers how this differentiation is carried out (by linguistic techniques that differ...
The article offers an overview of comic travesties of Hamlet by William Shakespeare in Polish culture. The author is interested in allusions appearing in popular culture (in commercials, or Internet memes) as well as in cinema, drama, and small literary forms. Invoking numerous examples, the author attempts to systematise, classify and define specific features of Polish jokes about Hamlet in global...
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