If This Be Magic

How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? What do global audiences of the Bard’s plays experience today? And, principally, how did those experiences come into being? This lively and gloriously written book will change the way we see the Bard. Surveying Shakespeare's work with a translator’s eye, and translation with an eye to Shakespeare, Daniel Hahn draws us into the fiery forge out of which the great playwright is reinvented and yet sounds, somehow, like himself—in Ch