Six People in Search of “To be or not to be . . .”: Hamlet’s Soliloquy in Six Chinese Productions and the Metamorphosis of Shakespeare Performance on the Chinese Stage

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Six People in Search of “To be or not to be . . .”: Hamlet’s Soliloquy in Six Chinese Productions and the Metamorphosis of Shakespeare Performance on the Chinese Stage

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ABSTRACT

These examples demonstrate that translation is not merely translating a text from one language to another. It conveys the original’s meaning and adapts the original into a new cultural environment and therefore creates a new meaning.