Tom Cheesman is Reader in German at the University of Swansea. He is the Principal Investigator on the collaborative, multi-disciplinary ‘Version Variation Visualisation’ project, looking at Digital Humanities approaches to analysing the multiplicity of Shakespeare re-translations.
In 2010, I had a long paper about the history of German translations of Othello rejected by a prestigious journal. The reviewer wrote: “The Shakespeare Industry doesn’t need more information…