The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare


Oliva, Salvador

Oliva, Salvador (b. 1942).
Catalan poet and translator of Shakespeare. His translations were first conceived to subtitle and dub the BBC Television Shakespeare series. He casts blank verse into Catalan free verse, and aims at a close poetic and dramatic rendering. Having started in the 1980s, Oliva is the most prolific of modern translators of Shakespeare into any Spanish language: he has translated all the plays, as well as the Sonnets.

A. Luis Pujante

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