Exhibition celebrating Shakespeare, Ulrike Draesner and the Art of Translation opens in the Taylor Institution Library
400 years after Shakespeare’s death, the Taylorian Library presents ways in which his texts have stayed alive across the centuries in languages around the world under the title "Shall I compare thee? Shakespeare in translation"
A special focus lies on the “radical translation” by Ulrike Draesner, Writer in Residence in Oxford, on the occasion of the symposium discussing her work in April 2016. The German obsession with translating Shakespeare’s sonnets is shown in copies from the Taylorian holdings from the 19th to the 21st century. The worldwide context of Shakespeare-mania is explored in other forms of creative adaptation, across languages and media.
The exhibition will be opened on Tuesday, 12 April, 5:30pm, with a wine reception sponsored by the Mediating Modern Poetry project of Karen Leeder; the poet Ulrike Draesner will be present. All welcome!