Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

During the last twenty-five years or so, critical and theoretical interest in translation and the construction of early modern identities has gathered momentum. Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction which takes Venus and Adonis as a starting point for the collection and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \ Introduction Liz Oakley-Brown \ 1. Schooling Coriolanus: Shakespeare, Translation and Latinity Barbara Correll \ 2. A Midsummer Night's Symposium: Translating Platonic Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream Erica Birrell \ 3. ‘Silence! Trouble Us Not!': Travail and Translated Identity in The Tempest Julia Major \ 4. Harming Macbeth: A British Translation Paul Innes \ 5. ‘Most Retrograde to Our Desire': Translating Recusant Identity in Hamlet Richard Chamberlain \ Afterword:Ton Hoenselaars \ Index