CROATIAN

TRANSLATORS OF
SHAKESPEARE
 Word-for-word translation

Croatian translators of Shakespeare: Milan

Bogdanović, Milan Šenoa, Vinko Krišković,
Josip Torbarina, Slavko Jezić, Antun Šoljan,
Tomislav Ladan, Mate Maras, Luko
Paljetak, Željka Čorak, Zvonimir Mrkonjić ,
Ivan Goran Kovačić and so on.
 Luko Paljetak
from
 Dubrovnik
degree in the Croatian and English language at the


University of Zadar
poet, translator, theatre and art critic, director, essayist,


children’s writer and playwright

Aside from English, he also translated from French and


Slovenian
Translation: the fourteener with a caesura after the


seventh syllable
Interested in translation theory; discusions on


traductology
Significant translations:
G.
 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost


W. Shakespeare: Pericles


W. Shakespeare: Sonnets


James Joyce: Ulysses



L. Carroll: Alice in Wonderland



G.G. Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



E.A.Poe: Poems


Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems



O. Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Fairytales


Milan Bogdanović
 The first serious and systematic
translator of Shakespeare in Croatia
 1876 – 1942
 Graduted from the Faculty of Law in
Zagreb
 Translated from English, French,
German, Russian, Czech, Hungarian,
Italian and Slovenian.
Translation: Byron, Dostoyevsky,
Lermontov..
1919 - contract to translate one
Shakespeare’s work each year.
Translated about a dozen
Shakespeare’s plays: Othello, King
Lear, Julius Caesar, King Richard III,
Romeo and Juliet, etc.
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Merchant of Venice - published
posthumously; edited by Josip Torbarina

 Inabilityto compress Shakespeare’s

original metaphors into the eleven
syllable verse

 Translated a total of 17 Sh.’s works

 Mate Maras
 translator and poet

 1939- Studenci / Imotski

 first
to translate the complete works of William
Shakespeare into Croatian (38 plays, sonnets
and other poems)
 innovation in the method of translation

 deviation from the standard number of

syllables, but keeps five stressed
syllables in one verse

 renounces iambic rhythm and accepts

free verse based on trochaic rhythm
 Josip Torbarina
 translatorand comparatist
 1902- Račišće-Korčula
 The medal of the Order of the British Empire
 graduated from the University of Cambridge
 doctoral studies at the University of London
 Founder of the department of the English language
at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
in Zagreb

 Diedin 1986 in Stratford-upon-Avon at a yearly

Shakespeare convention

 Translations- faithful to the original text; convey

rhythmic and stylistic features of the original text
Most notable translations
 The Merry Wives of Windsor
 Measure for Measure
 Troilus and Cressida
 Macbeth
 Romeo and Juliette
 Hamlet
 Cymbeline.
W. Shakespeare – Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonet 18
Luko Paljetak
Da l da te s ljetnim usporedim danom?
Ti ljepša si i ćud ti blaža sva je:
Otresu vjetri cvijeće Svibnju ranom
Pa ljetno doba odveć kratko traje;
Previše katkad oko neba sja,
I često lik mu zlatni sjena skrije,
I sva ljepota ružnom postat zna,
Kad slučaj ili priroda to htije;
Al tvoje vječno ljeto neće svanut,
Nit će izgubit čari što te krase,
Nit će se hvastat Smrt da k njoj ćeš
krenut,
U stihu ti u vječne rasteš čase:
Dok oko gleda i dok dišu ljudi,
I stih moj živ je, i život ti nudi.
Mate Maras
Kad poredim tebe s lijepim danom ljeta –
Ti si mnogo ljepša, više ljupka, nježna;
Pupoljak se smrzne u maju kad cvjeta,
Ljepota je ljeta vrlo kratkosežna.
Katkad sunce s neba odveć vrelo sine,
Njemu lice zlatno oblak često skriva,
Sva ljepota žene sa vremenom mine –
Priroda il' udes čari joj razriva.
 
Al' tvog ljeta sunce nikad neće zaći –
Ti ostat' nikad nećeš bez sadašnjeg sjaja;
Van života ti se nikad nećeš naći
Dok u pjesmi ovoj vječnost te osvaja.
Sve dok ljudi vide i dok život traje
Ova pjesma tebi život će da daje.
W. Shakespeare – Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head;
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
 Sonet 130
Luko Paljetak
Gospi mi sunce iz oka ne rudi,
Crveniji od usni koralj njoj je,
Ako bijel snijeg je, njoj su sive grudi,
Ako je kosa žica, crna toj je;
Crvenih ja i bijelih vidjeh ruža,
Al takva ruža s lica njoj ne viri,
Veći užitak mnogi miris pruža,
Nego dah što od gospe mi se širi;
Slušati volim glas njen, al znam,
Jača slasti je u glazbi koja skladom mazi;
Ne vidjeh kako božica korača -
Kad moja gospa ide, zemljom gazi.
Neba mi, ipak ljepša je od sviju
Što s njom se lažno usporedit smiju.
I.G. Kovačić
Ljepše se koralj od usana rudi;
Ko sunce lijepost oči joj ne krasi;
Ako bijel je snijeg, sive su joj grudi,
Il vlas crna žica, žice su joj vlasi.
 
Vidjeh baršun ruža, rujnih i bijelih,
Na licu takva ruža dragoj nije;
Mnogi miris više slasti dijeli
Od daha što iz moje drage bije.
 
Volim glas njen, mada više godi
Muzika, jer zvuk joj ljepši ima;
Božicu nikad ne vidjeh da hodi -
A moja draga ide samo tlima;
 
Tako mi neba, ipak divna mi je,
I nijedna joj druga ravna nije.