“Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh” (MWW, 3.1.89): Transposing Shakespeare’s ‘Favourite’ Foreign Accents into French
The Merry Wives of Windsor has long been compared to a great babel of languages. The play contains a smattering of Spanish, Italian and Dutch and even a whole scene dedicated to the mistranslation of Latin. A large part of the play’s humour also heavily relies on the foreign accents of two character...
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Lodz University Press
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Multicultural Shakespeare |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/3289 |