Othello Thou art Translated: Examining Equivalence in Othello in the Folk culture of Uttarakhand

The Evolution of Strong Othello

Race and ethnicity in Othello

Othello was written at a particular moment in history when the European construction of the ‘other’ was moving from a medieval to a modern paradigm. This involved a shift from religion to race and colour as the key signifiers of difference. In other words, Othello was written at a time when modern racial ideology and racial prejudice as we know them were coming into being but were not yet fully...

Translation Strategies of Culture-Specific Items from English to Persian in Translation of "Othello"

This study investigated the translation strategies of culture-specific items in translation of 'Othello' by William Shakespeare into Persian by Abdolhossein Nooshin. First, the English culture-specific items and their corresponding translations were identified. Then, the frequency of the strategies used by the translator according to Newmark's translation model and Venuti's domestication and fo...

Machine Learning of Othello Heuristics

The machine learning algorithm of [3] is applied to the problem of learning which heuristics to apply when playing the board game Othello. The problem is large, for there are 46,875 heuristics considered. The results are respectable; the Learner is able to beat a practiced human player approximately fifty percent of the time. Suggestions for improvement are included.

"Bottom, Thou Art Translated": The Making of VRML Dream

n the late summer of 1997, we sat in a pub in Toronto, Canada, and began planning an ambitious project: to create a new entertainment medium. The idea was to mount a live performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and " broadcast " it over the Internet. The sets, props, and all the characters were to be modeled using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 2.0. A group of actor...