SLOVENSKÝ SHAKESPEARE V AMERICKOM EXILE

• Authors: Marcinčin Matúš

Title variants

Slovak Shakespeare in American exileSlovak Shakespeare in American exileSlovak Shakespeare in American exile

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Ján Vilikovský’s synthesizing monograph Shakespeare u nás (2014) is a great study; however, it does not include the whole history of translations of Shakespeare’s dramas into the Slovak language. Slovak literary and theatre studies have not reflected this theme in relation to Slovak cultural exile after the year 1945. In the present contribution, the author completes the mentioned monograph by Vilikovský, he adds and deals especially with translations written in exile by Andrej Žarnov and Karol Strmeň. He pays special attention to the fragments of translations of Shakespeare’s dramas found as a manuscript in the inheritance left after the tragic death of their author Karol Strmeň. The author reconstructs the fragments and then analyses and compares them with relevant Slovak and Czech translations of Shakespeare’s works. As a result of this study, it can be concluded that the translations by Strmeň written in a modern, cultivated, although slightly archaic Slovak language would have achieved an important position in the history of Slovak translations of Shakespeare’s drama if they had been published.

Keywords

EN

SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM; STRMEŇ KAROL; TRANSLATION; SLOVAK CULTURAL EXILE; VILIKOVSKÝ JÁN

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4 – 21

Contributors

author

Marcinčin Matúš

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/sd-2017-0001