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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 1 of 7 27 September 2011 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Shakespeare's Globe theatre have announced details of a festival that will see all 37 of William Shakespeare's plays performed in 37 languages, from Urdu to Swahili, over six weeks in 2012. Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/cultural-olympiad/8791246 /Cultural-Olympiad-first-Shakespeare-play-in-sign-language.h tml Here they all are: 1) Troilus and Cressida......................MAORI 2) Measure for Measure......................RUSSIAN 3) The Merry Wives of Windsor..........SWAHILI 4) Pericles........................................GREEK 5) Twelth Night.................................HINDI 6) Richard III....................................MANDARIN 7) A Midsummer Night's Dream...........KOREAN 8) Julius Caesar.................................ITALIAN 9) Cymbeline.....................................ARABIC [JUBA] 10)Titus Andronicus...........................CANTONESE 11)Richard II....................................ARABIC [PALESTINE] 12)Othello.......................................HIP-HOP 13)The Tempest................................BANGLA 14)Macbeth......................................POLISH 15)The Two Gentlemen of Verona........SHONA 16)Henry VI:Part 1...........................SERBIAN 17)Henry VI:Part 2..........................ALBANIAN 18)Henry VI:Part 3..........................MACEDONIAN 19)Henry IV:Part 1..........................SPANISH [MEXICAN] 20)Henry IV:Part 2..........................SPANISH [ARGENTINE] 21)King John.................................ARMENIAN 22)King Lear..................................BELARUSSIAN 23)As You Like It...........................GEORGIAN 24)Romeo and Juliet.......................PORTUGUESE (BRAZILIAN] 25)Coriolanus................................JAPANESE 26)Love's Labour's Lost..................BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE 27)All's Well that Ends Well..............GUJARATI 28)The Winter's Tale.......................YORUBA 29)The Taming of the Shrew.............URDU 30)Anthony and Cleopatra...............TURKISH 31)The Merchant of Venice..............HEBREW 32)Henry VIII.................................SPANISH [CASTILLIAN] 33)The Comedy of Errors................PERSIAN 34)Timon of Athens.........................GERMAN 35)Much Ado About Nothing..............FRENCH 36)Hamlet......................................LITHUANIAN 37)Henry V....................................ENGLISH Your favourite Shakespeare performed in your favourite language? I'd love to see 7, 14, 21, 26, 30 and 36 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5186 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 2 of 7 11 October 2011 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Aww man, I wish I could go to some, but I have my trip to Japan scheduled for the same time and I'll barely have the money for that as it is.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 7 12 October 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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Nope, uh-uh, NWJ (no way José). Hip-hop (#12) is not a language.
37 plays in 36 languages is pretty extraordinary, but it falls short of the 37 in 37 claim. Regardless of what the Q-brothers may do to mangle an otherwise fine piece, hip-hop is not a language. Spanky has spoken. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 4 of 7 12 October 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged | |||||
Presumably they mean AAVE. If one were to take issue with that, then they should also take umbrage with Mexican, Argentine, and Castillian Spanish as well. Nevertheless, this is awesome. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 7 12 October 2011 at 4:39am | IP Logged | |||||
I had thought at first perhaps that was intended, but other articles make clear that it is "delightfully cheeky" American Hip Hop. It is from a troupe which has done similar adaptions in the past: The Bomb- itty of Errors; Funk It Up About Nothing - honestly, I am not making this up. Francis Bacon must be rolling over in his grave. Edited by Spanky on 12 October 2011 at 4:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 7 12 October 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ah, that's something rather different.
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| PinkCordelia Diglot Newbie Wales Joined 4811 days ago 31 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Welsh | Message 7 of 7 12 October 2011 at 9:58am | IP Logged | |||||
Why would someone who invented so many new words and expressions be rolling in his grave in response to someone else's creativity with language? "He was not of an age, but for all time!" - and perhaps all places and languages too. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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