[okfn-discuss] Open Literature

Thu Jul 7 00:23:22 UTC 2011

Nice to hear about this project Open Literature, Shakespeare specifically.

Allow me remind you that there are Complete Works of William
Shakespeare you can freely download from http://www.gutenberg.org/.

We have Shakespeare works translated into Chinese as public domain
according Copyright Law of Taiwan, If not complete works at least
partial works.

I am not sure those Chinese translation of Shakespeare works have
public digital files or not.

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> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 11:03:32 +0200
> From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
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> Fantastic to hear James!
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> 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].
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> 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.
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> [1] see, e.g. http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Shakespeare.htm
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