Daniel Hahn: Translating Shakespeare Livestream

What does it mean to translate Shakespeare? How do you rebuild a 400-year-old topical joke or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? Why is Hamlet even longer in Italian? In the vivid If This Be Magic award-winning translator Daniel Hahn reveals how Romeo & Juliet starts in Thai and why a Māori Macbeth line might actually improve on the original. One of the Festival’s favourite chairs joins us in the author seat with this fascinating, fresh and witty book that will change how you think about language.

Daniel will be in conversation with Daniel Swift.