Helge Kökeritz concluded that hair-heir-here-hare were four words often pronounced similarly in early modern English; in particular, he noted the likely pun on air-heir inHamlet,together with related puns on hair-heir and heir-here from...
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others." The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his ...
“To be, or not to be, thats t William Shakespeare(1564 1616) the great English Renaissance playwright. Poet, who on AD April 23, 1564 was born in England . Shakespeare is a world famous writer. Most of his works have been trans
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1 He read Hamlet (and Shakespeare’s other works) in French translation and in Nikolai Ketcher’s prose and Andrei Kroneberg’s verse translations in Russian, but never in English. His translation of Hamlet, the character, is not a linguistic translatio but a canvassing of poetic kinship ...