The Klingon Hamlet: Star Trek All SeriesSimon and Schuster, 2012 M10 9 - 240 pages An astonishing effort on the part of the leading Klingon scholars of today, telling a story of blood, honour and vengeance in true Klingon tradition. With the English-language version printed on the left and the Klingon on the right, this best-known of Shakespeare's plays, a tour-de-force of Elizabethan theatre, can now be read and understood in the great warrior tongue even by non-Klingon speakers. As General Chang (Christopher Plummer) was heard to remark in the movie Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country: "Shakespeare is better in the original Klingon." Building on the groundwork of linguist Marc Okrand, author of The Klingon Dictionary, who constructed a fully spoken language out of what began as little more than a background prop, the Klingon Language Institute in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the study and teaching of Klingon as a living tongue. Translating the great works of literature, Hamlet among them, is central to their philosophy of education and discovery. |
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... Terran, a certain Willem Shekispeore, and hoping by this falsification of history to discredit the achievements of Klingon culture. We will not dwell on this unfortunate episode, although we are dismayed that this belief continues and ...
... Terran, a certain Willem Shekispeore, and hoping by this falsification of history to discredit the achievements of Klingon culture. We will not dwell on this unfortunate episode, although we are dismayed that this belief continues and ...
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... Terrans in particular. This is no doubt due to their pseudo-mediaevalist parochial appeal, which has rendered these incisive masterpieces of sociopolitical analysis into innocuous picturesque period pieces—a genre favored on Terra (and ...
... Terrans in particular. This is no doubt due to their pseudo-mediaevalist parochial appeal, which has rendered these incisive masterpieces of sociopolitical analysis into innocuous picturesque period pieces—a genre favored on Terra (and ...
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... Terran literature than to “Amlet.” And significantly, the problems addressed in Khamlet are still foremost in the minds of the honorable in the Empire. It is a topic which Shex'pir frequently returns to in his plays—even his putatively ...
... Terran literature than to “Amlet.” And significantly, the problems addressed in Khamlet are still foremost in the minds of the honorable in the Empire. It is a topic which Shex'pir frequently returns to in his plays—even his putatively ...
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... Terran version, this turn in his actions comes right after his soliloquy, when he coldly dismisses Ofelea. To ... Terrans prize the “To be or not to be” soliloquy; if.
... Terran version, this turn in his actions comes right after his soliloquy, when he coldly dismisses Ofelea. To ... Terrans prize the “To be or not to be” soliloquy; if.
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... Terrans 'off the track' in their attempt to understand Klingon culture for decades. But it is important to bear in mind that Khamlet's soliloquies are not intended as tomfoolery or slapstick—though the Act III Scene 1 soliloquy in ...
... Terrans 'off the track' in their attempt to understand Klingon culture for decades. But it is important to bear in mind that Khamlet's soliloquies are not intended as tomfoolery or slapstick—though the Act III Scene 1 soliloquy in ...
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