No, the title of this post is not a typo. Alexandre Dumas, the guy who wrote
The Count of Monte Cristo
and
The Three Musketeers and so on, also translated Shakespeare's
Hamlet into French. And then I read a translation into English by Frank Morlock of his translation into French. Which sounds like a waste of time, since I can just read
Hamlet in English any time I want to, and have often done so. BUT.
But Alexandre Dumas didn't so much translate
Hamlet as retell it. He trimmed it considerabl...
Published on October 11, 2021 12:14