Making Hamlet German: Forms of Translation and Recreation

by Rebecca Hagen

This book examines the retranslation of Hamlet in Germany in the 20th and the early 21st century. It adopts a comparative approach, juxtaposing four retranslations (the versions by Hauptmann, Fried, Gunther, Schanelec and Gosch) of Shakespeare's Hamlet to Schlegel's canonical translation of the Long Nineteenth Century. By comparing and contrasting the succeeding translations to the Schlegelian translation as well as their direct predecessors, it can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3506760068
• ISBN13: 9783506760067
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill U Schoningh
• Length: 192 Pages