Information about ex. editor:
Monika L. Spivak
Monika L. Spivak, DSc in Philology, Head of the Department of Literary Heritage, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
This issue of the “Literary Heritage Library” presents translations prepared for volume VIII of the Complete Works by William Shakespeare, published by the Academia publishing house since 1936. In December 1937, the publishing house was liquidated; the volume of Shakespeare’s poetry, published in 1949 by Goslitizdat, contained other translations. The translation of “Sonnets” by M.A. Kuzmin, considered lost, was discovered in the Academia collection at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI; sonnets 1–103, fair typescript), as well as translations by V.S. Davidenkova- Golubeva, Yu.P. Anisimov and E.I. Sadovsky. Their publishing history is revealed in the introduction and notes. All texts are published for the first time.
Keywords: W. Shakespeare, “Sonnets”, “Venus and Adonis”, “The Phoenix and the Turtle”, Academia publishing house, artistic and philological translation, M.А. Kuzmin, V.S. Davidenkova-Golubeva, Yu.P. Anisimov, E.I. Sadovsky.
