#Henry iv part 1 folger series

I wondered about how the archaic English in the original slowed us down because we were working so hard to be clear, working so hard to bring the audience along with us, working so hard to simultaneously translate and deliver the text. Yes, it is no Hamlet, but still, this was also without cuts вЂ“ because that is one of the Play on! rules вЂ“ and still it clipped along, clear and lean and muscular. Also, after four days of working through the translation line by line, we read the whole thing and it clocked in at 2 hours 20 minutes, with the interval. The clarity of the translation and the actorsвЂ™ voices on it illuminated some things for me: Hal is really a jerk, Falstaff is really agitating from the word вЂњgoвЂќ to be not cast off, and Vernon is really hot for Hal. I talked the first day about how a playwright often has a hard time hearing the first read of a new play because of nerves. It meant that I could really hear the play, because I was so much closer to what I intended, and because I was far less apprehensive.

#Henry iv part 1 folger series

I have been studying public policy this year, and often, falling into the play, working on fixing the meter, matching the rhythms, has been like medicine for me, a stress-busting exercise.ДЄ series of accidents and circumstances led to my arriving in the room with a third draft instead of the required second, and I am so grateful. The assignment required two drafts, but I cannot seem to stop. What a joy it has been to hear the play, to really hear the play. I am on the plane on my way back to Saskatoon from New York, where I just had four days in the room with actors and my translation of Henry IV, Part 1. в‡’ Q&A withВ Elise Thoron and Julie Felise Dubiner about translating The Merchant of Venice

в‡’ Q&A with Caridad Svich about translating Henry VIII в‡’ Q&A with Kenneth Cavander about translating Timon of Athens в‡’ Q&A with Migdalia Cruz about translating Macbeth в‡’ Q&A with Ellen McLaughlin about translating Pericles в‡’ Q&A with Lillian Groag about translating Troilus and Cressida в‡’ Read an introduction to the Play on! project by Lue Douthit, the project director at OSF This monthвЂ™s post breaks out of the typical Q&A format as Yvette Nolan shares reflections from her work translating Henry IV, Part 1, just after hearing it read aloud for the first time in April. If youвЂ™ve been following the Shakespeare & Beyond blog, youвЂ™ll know that the Folger has been doing a monthly series of Q&As with some of the playwrights and dramaturgs involved with Oregon Shakespeare FestivalвЂ™s Play on! project to translate all of ShakespeareвЂ™s plays into contemporary English.