Happy Birthday William Shakespeare!
Shakespeare’s birthday (23rd April) is being celebrated with the launch of a multi-lingual performance of ‘Sonnet 30’, Two members of staff at Aberystwyth University, Dewi Huw Owen, Research Officer at the Mercator Institute, and Adam Wilson, New Media Developer at the University’s Marketing Department, have been working hard during the past few weeks preparing a short film to celebrate William Shakespeare’s birthday, which falls on the 23rd of April. In the film, ‘Sonnet 30’, one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems, is performed by a multi-lingual cast. The performance begins and ends with a reading of lines from the Welsh translation of the poem, by Hynek Janoušek, a native of Prague who is currently an MA student at the Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University. This translation is also to be seen in full along with the original English text in the fideo’s subtitles. The other lines of the poem are read by speakers from all over the world in many different languages, from Spanish t...