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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... play. Don't concern yourself with temporal anomalies of how you can be reading this play from the future (it never concerned you before, whether in front of the television or at the theatre). A wondrous thing has been created here, a ...
... play. Don't concern yourself with temporal anomalies of how you can be reading this play from the future (it never concerned you before, whether in front of the television or at the theatre). A wondrous thing has been created here, a ...
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... play that both questions and encapsulates the very essence of being Klingon: the Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the ... plays. These were acclaimed from the beginning, in the mess-halls and actor-bars of the Empire: these plays struck ...
... play that both questions and encapsulates the very essence of being Klingon: the Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the ... plays. These were acclaimed from the beginning, in the mess-halls and actor-bars of the Empire: these plays struck ...
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... plays—on the one hand, the spontaneous, direct, vibrant verse of Khamlet, and on the other, the flaccid, ponderous, convoluted meanderings of “Amlet”—speak for themselves. Those who persist in being Doubting Thomazeds would do well to ...
... plays—on the one hand, the spontaneous, direct, vibrant verse of Khamlet, and on the other, the flaccid, ponderous, convoluted meanderings of “Amlet”—speak for themselves. Those who persist in being Doubting Thomazeds would do well to ...
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... play the reader currently has on his viewscreen. To come to this particular play: Khamlet is widely regarded amongst Klingons as a problematic play. This is because of the daring innovations by Shex'pir on the conventions of the genre ...
... play the reader currently has on his viewscreen. To come to this particular play: Khamlet is widely regarded amongst Klingons as a problematic play. This is because of the daring innovations by Shex'pir on the conventions of the genre ...
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... play comes with Oshrik in V 2; his idiom, drenched with faddish loans from Federation Standard, can be safely held up to ridicule, since one would well expect a courtier to be corrupted. (Some scholars would contend Oshrik's language ...
... play comes with Oshrik in V 2; his idiom, drenched with faddish loans from Federation Standard, can be safely held up to ridicule, since one would well expect a courtier to be corrupted. (Some scholars would contend Oshrik's language ...
Common terms and phrases
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