Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, edited by Prof. Dr Ton Hoenselaars (Early Modern Literary Culture) and Prof. Dirk Delabastita, shows that the 'Englishness' of Shakespeare and some of his contemporary colleagues can only be fully understood when studied in light of a broader international and multilingual context.

Locating Shakespeare

No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenom- enon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. With this collection of essays, Hoenselaars demonstrates that Shakespeare and his colleagues were far more than just ‘English’ authors, and that their very ‘Englishness’ can only be properly understood in a broader international and multilingual context. Showing a healthy disrespect for customary disciplinary borderlines, Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries brings together a wide range of scholarly traditions and vastly different types of expertise.

Prof. dr. Ton Hoenselaars
Prof. Ton Hoenselaars

Ton Hoenselaars is a professor in Early Modern English Literature at Utrecht University. His research concentrates on early modern English literature and its international relations. He has published widely on images of nations in Renaissance literature, literature in translation, and on Shakespeare in European culture from 1600 to the present day.

Dirk Delabastita is a professor of English literature and literary theory at the University of Namur, and Research Fellow at KU Leuven. His main research interests include: literary studies and its interface with linguistics and translation studies, wordplay and ambiguity, and the translation and international reception of Shakespeare.

 

  • Editors: Dirk Delabastita & Ton Hoenselaars
  • Title: Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • ISBN: 978 90 272 4261 7
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company