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TRANSLATING SHAKESPEARE FOR MODERN AUDIENCES
Play On! Shakespeare was an ambitious under- taking from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that commissioned new translations of 39 Shakespeare plays. Tese translations present the Bard’s work in language accessible to mod- ern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shake- speare for the twenty-first century. Tese vol- umes make these works available for the first time in print — a new First Folio for a new era.