“To thine ownself be true”: dealing with opacity and solving riddles in the Ukrainian translations of Hamlet
The history of the Ukrainian Hamlet shows that in Ukraine the tragedy’s cognitive resources have always been efficiently employed as a means of intellectual campaigning. Today Hamlet keeps attracting the most gifted and charismatic translators who attempt to decipher the messages encoded in this mas...
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| Pubblicato in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare, |
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
2015
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The history of the Ukrainian Hamlet shows that in Ukraine the tragedy’s cognitive resources have always been efficiently employed as a means of intellectual campaigning. Today Hamlet keeps attracting the most gifted and charismatic translators who attempt to decipher the messages encoded in this masterpiece. The result differs each time depending on the aim and epistemological priorities of the translator. Sometimes new riddles are created. By means of singling out those special ambiguous moments this paper tries to clarify how the opacity of Shakespeare’s twilight can be deliberately turned into either a bright day, or a dark night. |
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