Shakespeare, the Ekphrastic Translator

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Shakespeare in the Weimar Republic

Characteristics of Competent Translator Trainers From the Viewpoint of Expert Iranian Translator Trainers: A Qualitative Study

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...

The translator.

First of all, let me thank you very much indeed for this opportunity to talk with you concerning problems of mutual concern. In view of your current endeavors in the design of a new curriculum, and, more importantly, the premises from which this design emanates, it is clear that at best I may be bringing a few coals to Newcastle. Nevertheless, let me try to formulate with you some of my thought...

Melville / Shakespeare

That Melville's Moby Dick contains nearly measureless references to the reading of Shakespeare is an old story featuring the whaling epic's persistent Shakespearean verbal echoes, the composition and sequencing of scenes, and the construction of Ahab as a tragic hero-villain, his shipmen as "knights and squires" and heroic commoners all caught in a tragic drama of the excesses and shortcomings ...