Unabridged: What’s in a Translation with Daniel Hahn

In this bonus episode, I’m joined by writer, editor, and translator Daniel Hahn to discuss his newest book, If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. Today, we chat about Daniel’s approach to this work, how studying Shakespeare in translation helps us understand language, and the various quirks that come up when translating.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• If This be Magic by Daniel Hahn

• William Shakespeare

• John Freeman

• The International Booker Prize

• The Dublin Literary Award

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Trochee

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

• Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn

• Jeopardy

• “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare

• Te Haumihiata Mason

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

• Mark Rylance

• Twelfth Night (2012, The Globe)

• Eddie Redmayne

• King Henry VI Part 2 by William Shakespeare

• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

• Royal Shakespeare Company

• Richard II by William Shakespeare

• Richard III by William Shakespeare

• King Lear by William Shakespeare

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

• As You Like It by William Shakespeare

• Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare

• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

• If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn (Audiobook)

  
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