William Shakespeare
Should Shakespeare's Work Be Translated?
Shakespeare has been the lord of writing for centuries. His work, full of wit and puns has not been replaced by any other writer so far. However, the language used in Shakespeare's work h Continue Reading...
Yet despite the fact that the play's title is nothing but his name, Othello is arguably not really the central figure of the story. Iago is far more instrumental in moving the plot forward; it is his (not fully explained) hatred of Othello that the Continue Reading...
The result is a translation that fails either to satisfy the impulse for Arab audiences to appreciate the nuance of one of Shakespeare's great tragedies or to create a work that resonates with Arab-speaking audiences.
In many ways, the challenges o Continue Reading...
Garter Motto in the Merry Wives of Windsor," the author discusses the application of alternative Elizabethan translations of the motto sifts the play's characters ultimately surrendering to an idea of "knightly" behavior in The Merry Wives of Windso Continue Reading...
Theatre:
English-speaking versions of Hamlet vs. European versions
The many contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare enacted on the modern stage underline the fact that Shakespeare was a playwright for the ages, not simply a man of his own time Continue Reading...
As mentioned earlier on, the new political dispensation that took off is 1994 opened the "gates of creative possibility" (Roos,2010) for the opera producers since they were therefore able to juxtapose the Western and African art scenes. This was fue Continue Reading...
Linguistics
Translation and Linguistics -- Using one to Decode the Other
Every translation is an interpretation and requires a human actor as an intermediary. Despite all of our technological advancements, coming up with a "correct" or "proper" tra Continue Reading...
This is justified by the argument that the original Homeric language was accessible to Homer's audience and as prose is more accessible to contemporary readers it is a better way to mimic the first reception of Greek audiences. Other classicists tra Continue Reading...
Marlowe's Faustus
An Examination of Christopher's Doctor Faustus
The Play in its Period
The Play
Personal Evaluation
The Play in its Period
Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is a frightening Continue Reading...
In fact, development of the idea will be substituted for life (Hegel, 1988).
The article on natural right and the System der Sittlichkeit complete each other. The first is destined to reveal a new way of posing the problem of natural right while th Continue Reading...
Earl of Rochester / Aphra Behn
Masks and Masculinities:
Gender and Performance in the Earl of Rochester's "Imperfect Enjoyment"
and Aphra Behn's "The Disappointment"
Literature of the English Restoration offers the example of a number of writers Continue Reading...
F. "A.F" stands for the absolute god of this new world, Ford, an obvious allusion to Henry Ford one of the greatest and most successful manufacturers in history. The main slogan of this world is however different from that of Nineteen Eighty-Four: "C Continue Reading...
Bhagavad-Gita is a conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, narrated by the Bhisma-Parva of the Mahabharata. It is 18 chapters long, totaling 701 Sanskrit verses. Within these verses is found the basis for the path of spiritual enlightenment. I Continue Reading...