Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Translation and Adaptation
7. In the Beginning Was the Verse: A Personal Testimony on the Adventurous Task of Translating Shakespeare's Metre into Brazilian Portuguese 36
8. Stage or Page? A Momentous Choice 62
9. “My Restless Discord Loves No Stops Nor Rests”: Translating “The Rape of Lucrece” for the Stage 72
10. A Riverplate Translation of the Sonnets 90
11. Taming and Timing: Translating The Taming of the Shrew into Italian 102
12. Entangled and Embodied Knowledge(s) in the “many strange dishes” of Much Ado about Nothing in Performance 123
13. Lyric Reflection: Translating the Script of a kunqu Romeo and Juliet into English 155
14. Theorizing Translation
15. Celebrating Life: Translation as an Act of Survival 202
16. Shakespeare's Fathers and the Undead Renaissance 219
17. Commedia dell'Arte Translations: Three Pantalones in The Merchant of Venice 239
18. A Mirror up to Hamlet: Translations of Shakespeare in Japan 258
19. Shu Lin and the Earliest Image of Shakespeare in China 284
20. Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword 298
21. Contributors 309
22. Index 315