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Shakespeare and Translation
Shakespeare travels through the world, you africa, india, so on, with the british during times of colonialism. The first recorded performance of hamlet is on board an east india company ship off the coast of sierra leo. So there's that. It's very early. And then on the other hand, you have sof translation and so on. In these countries, in iniran, an, in egypt, in these kecultural hubs, it's not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that there really is an influx of translation. But they try to preserve their own language and culture by avoiding texts like sh Shakespeare’s in alger
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