
11 May 2009

To Be or Not to Be: Klingons and Shakespeare
The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.
The young prince decides to take revenge:putting himself insane, he wants to enlighten the murder of his father. Hamlet travels to England for a year and returns to kill the 11 uncles and save his mother.
Hamlet
Onkel
Mutter
Hamlets Vater
Feind
Lauscher
Herr Kranz
Moormädchen
Engischer König
Englische Königstochter
Englische Königstochter
Englische Königstochter
Englischer Freund
Afrikaner
Milchbruder
Englische Königin
Herr Stern
11 May 2009
The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.
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