Addressed at the reader of The New Critical Idiom series, non-initiated in translation studies, Translation offers a selective introduction focussing on the centrality of the translator and of translation, which both “is at the heart of global communication today” and “has played a central role in the transmission of ideas and literatures over the centuries” (15). This instructive and easy to read volume is organized into an introduction and seven chapters followed by a conclusion, and confirms the well-known breadth and depth of the author’s scholarship.

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(1995) 2008 The Translator’s Invisibility. A History of Translation. London: Routledge.

Worthen, W.B.

2008 “Shakespeare 3.0; or, Text vs. Performance, the Remix.” In Alternative Shakespeares 3, ed. by Diana E. Henderson, 54-77. London: Routledge.