Hosting Language: Immigration and Translation in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Authors

Kathryn Vomero Santos, Trinity UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

I will argue that Shakespeare uses the dialogic form of drama to stage such encounters between the languages of guest and host and to demonstrate that hosting the stranger in the English language causes the play’s English characters, along with its audiences and readers, to become “sensitive to the strangeness of [their] own language” and yet resistant to the idea that the immigrant can ever be fully “Englished” (Ricoeur 2006: 29).⁷

Editor

Ruben Espinosa & David Ruiter

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing

City

Burlington, VT

ISBN

9781409411000 & 9781138260979

Repository Citation

Santos, K. V. (2014). Hosting language: Immigration and translation in The merry wives of Windsor. In R. Espinosa & D. Ruiter (Eds.), Shakespeare and immigration (pp. 59-72). Ashgate Publishing.

Publication Information

Shakespeare and Immigration