[okfn-discuss] Open Literature

Tue Jul 5 09:03:32 UTC 2011

Fantastic to hear James!

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:53 AM, James Harriman-Smith
<open-shakespeare at okfn.org> wrote:
> - Sourcing translations of Shakespeare to augment Open Shakespeare (is there
> a German equivalent of http://gallica.bnf.fr/ for example?)
> Do let me know what you think of this, and if you have any more ideas,

I'd love to hear more about how you get on sourcing public domain
translations of Shakespeare. I think this is also really interesting
from the point of view of doing reception histories. I'd be
particularly interested in looking at the reception of Shakespeare in
Germany, which has been very important at various historical periods
[1].

Relating to the broader 'open literature' theme - conversely I'd be
very interested in English editions and translations of non-English
works. E.g. English translations of Goethe, Dante, etc. Or editions of
the Arabian nights.

Perhaps we can catch up about this in person at some point - e.g.
could you come down to our London meetup in July? ;-)

J.

[1] see, e.g. http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Shakespeare.htm

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