Education Week: A Plan to Update Shakespeare to Modern English Causes Consternation
Four years ago, the news that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival had commissioned modern English “translations” of all of Shakespeare’s plays drew headlines, and no small alarm, from purists who saw it ...
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three ...
Last week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it had commissioned thirty-six playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. The backlash began immediately, with O ...
We get a lot of Shakespeare but we also get pieces from his contemporaries, from more modern playwrights, adaptations from books, movies, or songs, and original work being tried out for the first time in front of people.
Playbill: The Acting Company Will Stage Modern Verse Translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
The Acting Company will stage Lisa Peterson's modern verse translation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet later this spring. Running May 20-24 at Sheen Center, the 75-minute adaptation will be directed ...
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rocked the literary world at the end of September with a bold announcement: Festival organizers are commissioning the translation of 39 Shakespearean plays into modern ...
The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated “even if we don’t hear a single one of his words.” ...
The New York Times: A Shakespeare Festival Presents Modern Translations. Cue the Debate (Again).