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Nick Nicholas

Autor/a de The Klingon Hamlet

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William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: The Restored Klingon Version, translated by Nick Nicholas as paghmo' tIn mIS, continues the trend Nicholas and Andrew Strader began in 1996 with The Klingon Hamlet in translating Shakespearean texts into Klingon following the Klingon characters’ Shakespearean references in Nicholas Meyer’s 1991 film, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In his introduction, Nicholas references Khamlet and the as-yet unpublished One Dreams in the Middle of the Hot Season. The book features parallel translation, with Wil’yam Shex’pir’s Klingon text on the left (using the Roman alphabet) and the Terran English on the right. As a linguistic exercise, Nicholas includes extensive footnotes about his translations and linguistic subtleties. Those looking to learn more about the Klingon language will find this a particularly useful volume as it shows the language in use with subtext informing the choice of titles and terms for describing characters’ relationships.… (més)
 
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DarthDeverell | Dec 10, 2020 |
Taking into consideration that it is dated and Byzantine, the book was alright. I'm not certain it would as popular today as it was back in the 1300s, but it does serve as marker of what can and will be banned. The story is x-rated, even by today's standards and full of dick jokes. The folly of government and subjects is in full view and also the mistreatment of animals by humans in probably more stark in the book than any PETA advert featuring naked ladies in lettuce. All of this said, don't read unless you are into Christian-themed pornography about animals that boast about being killed by human beings and their penis sizes. In all honesty, it's probably an amazing book if you wanted to do pomo or feminist criticism and compare to something today.… (més)
 
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veranasi | Jan 17, 2014 |
How much fun! A b-lingual "restored" version of one of the best of the Avon Bard's works.
 
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