By Any Other Name: Shakespeare in Translation
Author E.B. Bartels ’10
Published on May 5, 2022
On the lawn outside the Shakespeare Society’s house on a sunny Friday afternoon, a group of Wellesley faculty and students gathered to celebrate the famous bard. Familiar scenes and sonnets were on the program, but they didn’t sound quite like traditional Shakespeare. Actors performed parts of The Tempest in Arabic and Tamazight and Sonnet 18 in Korean. Hamlet was presented in Spanish and German, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Mandarin. This was “Shakespeare in Translation.”