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Daniel Hahn | If This Be Magic: Shakespeare in Translation

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Lecture Humanities

Tue, Sep 22, 2026

12 PM – 1:20 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Over the past couple of years, Daniel Hahn has been interviewing some of the translators who took on what must be one of the greatest of translation challenges - re-creating Shakespeare. After studying the work of those people who've wrestled with each of their respective languages to remake these incomparably rich and complex four-century-old plays in Danish, Hungarian, Swahili, Turkish, Japanese and a few dozen others besides, he has now published a book about their heroic (and alarming) work, and he will discuss what the process has taught him about translation, about Shakespeare, and about his own language.

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Daniel Hahn

Translator, Writer, Editor

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator. Recent books include If This Be Magic: the Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation, and translations from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru. He is currently translating an Angolan novel and re-translating a French children's classic, and co-editing (with Padma Viswanathan) The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories.


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