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King Lear: A Verse Translation
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780983637943
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 8 2013
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
- Line-by-line verse translation, not a prose paraphrase.
- Complete. No lines deleted or simplified.
- Accurate and authentic iambic pentameter.
- True to the feel and look of Shakespeare's original.
- Tone, complexity, and poetic devices preserved.
- Vocabulary range matches Shakespeare's.
- Uncluttered, easy-to-read layout.
- Ready for theatrical performance.
- Readers experience the brutal downfall of Shakespeare's most dysfunctional family with the comprehension and delight of audiences 400 years ago-the way Shakespeare intended. Too often, unless we read a Shakespeare play beforehand, we process the language as if it were coming from a poorly tuned-in radio station. Shakespeare didn't write his plays to be experienced impressionistically as 'poetry;' he assumed his language was readily comprehensible. At what point does a stage of a language become so different from the modern one as to make translation necessary? Mr. Richmond is brave enough to assert that, for Shakespeare, that time has come. The French have Moliere, the Russians have Chekhov--and now, we can truly say that we have our Shakespeare.
--John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute
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