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‘If This Be Magic’ Review: A Great Feast of LanguagesShakespeare has resonated with audiences in Swedish, Swahili and beyond. But translating the Bard requires some difficult choices.By Henry Hitchings, WSJ (April 22, 2026) Transferring Shakespeare's works into another language is hard work: Samuel Johnson complained, more than 250 years ago, that William Shakespeare’s style was […]