Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language
By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 6 October 2015 Last week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it had commissioned thirty-six playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. The backlash began immediately, with O.S.F. devotees posting their laments on the festival’s Facebook page. “What a revolting development!” “Is there really a need to translate English into Brain […]
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