Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsShakespeare's writing contains many passages where the phrasing and language is obscure or incomprehensible to modern ears. When he is translated into other languages, do the translators reproduce the obscurities or smooth out the difficulties? For instance, when Ophelia talks of someone who "recks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM on June 1, 2016