title: Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Language)
author: Ton Hoenselaars
description: <b>Ton Hoenselaars</b> is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the English Department of Utrecht University. He is the founding Chairman of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries (SGNV) and President of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA). He is a leading figure in international Shakespeare studies with an excellent reputation and profile. He is the 2012 Sam Wanamaker Fellow.
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  # Bourdieu in Translation Studies
  
  
  
  
  
  This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural
  production for the study of translation. Bourdieu’s work has continued to
  inspire research on translation in the last few years, although without a
  detailed, large-scale investigation that tests the viability of his conceptual
  tools and methodological assumptions. With a focus on the Arabic translations
  of Shakespeare’s tragedies in Egypt, this book offers a detailed analysis of
  the theory of ‘fields of cultural production’ with the purpose of providing a
  fresh perspective on the genesis and development of drama translation in
  Arabic.
  
  
  The different cases of the Arabic translations of _Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear_
  and _Othello_ lend themselves to sociological analysis due to the complex
  socio-cultural dynamics which conditioned the translation decisions made by
  translators, theatre directors, actors/actresses and publi