Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

Liz Oakley-Brown is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Writing at Lancaster University, UK. She is author of Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor of Translation and Nation (Multilingual Matters, 2001).

• 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.

‘This is an insightful book that opens up Shakespeare studies and extends awareness of the fundamental importance of the concept of translation across time and cultures.'