{"id":365,"date":"2017-01-11T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/englishturku\/?p=365"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:19:21","slug":"shakespeare-400-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/englishturku\/2017\/01\/11\/shakespeare-400-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare 400 revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Shakespeare 400 course was organised jointly by the University of Turku and \u00c5bo Akademi University in autumn 2016<\/a>. <\/p>\n

After the first lecture on the history of English and the early printing history of Shakespeare\u2019s works, the students delved deeper into other topics in Shakespeare studies. Aino M\u00e4kikalli discussed Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets, situating them in their historical and ideological context. Anthony Johnson highlighted the influence of early modern school curricula on Shakespeare\u2019s plays.<\/p>\n

The Finnish translations of Shakespeare\u2019s plays and sonnets were introduced by Outi Paloposki. For example, in an early translation of the Scottish play, one of the characters is called Pirjo. Intrigued? Read the play here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Tom Linkinen and Hannu Salmi approached Shakespeare from the point of view of cultural history. Linkinen discussed the ways in which genders and sexualities are performed in Shakespeare\u2019s plays. Salmi, in turn, started from a mnemohistorical point of view, showing the audience examples of how Shakespeare has been interpreted on the silver screen<\/a>. The last lecture by Joel Kuortti focused on the postcolonial rewritings of The Tempest.<\/p>\n

The students also engaged in small group work. One of the tasks was to translate into Finnish Benedick\u2019s troubled rant from Much Ado About Nothing (V.ii.35-41)<\/a>. It works quite nicely in the Turku dialect, too!<\/p>\n

    \nEn sunka m\u00e4\u00e4 ny mitt\u00e4 riimei ossa. Kyl m\u00e4\u00e4 niimpal yriti, mut ei mul mitt\u00e4 muut tullu mi\u00e4le ku \u201dflikoi\u201d ja \u201dsikoi\u201d. Kuka ny simmossi puhu! Eik\u00e4 koulun kans men mikk\u00e4 muu, ku joulu. Mitt\u00e4 j\u00e4rke… Ei munt kyl ol tarkotettu mitt\u00e4 runoi v\u00e4rkk\u00e4m\u00e4, eik\u00e4 n\u00e4ttei puhuma muutenka!
    \n(Translation: Tuula Viitanen)\n<\/ol>\n

    Text by Mari-Liisa Varila<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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