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“To say that Shakespeare went to Holinshed for the history of Mucbeth,” writes James Nosworthy,“but to Marlowe's Doctor Fuustus for the tragedy of Mucbeth... is not wholly without justification.”'Shakespeare typically took the rough edges off his sources, and Mucbeth is filled with references and inti-

Аннотация Discusses the parallelism between William Shakespeare's Coriolanus character and Ovid's Cadmus character from the dramaMetamorphoses.'Transformation of Coriolanus and Cadmus into peace-loving men; Comment on the allusions to Ovid by the Menenius character inCoriolanus.'

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Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's negotiation of “vertical” and “horizontal” translation, with some reference to Shakespeare's treatment of overlapping languages, and that of a contemporary Catholic treatise on translation. Jonson's conclusion is that the friction between languages offers opportunities for cheats to thrive onstage and off, and that the predominant language of this world is sin, from which only lucid repentance can “translate” us. His satire thus stands on godly ground, but his insight is useful for the current study of translated and adapted literature, particularly Shakespeare.