Translating Shakespeare’s Jack Cade by D.V.Gundappa

Translation studies

This paper would focus on Shakespeare’s Jack Cade translation in the year 1956 by D.V.Gundappa & its reception: It is a well-known fact that translation does not happen in vacuum, literary translation contributes a great deal to the cultural communication between two languages. The literary text (ST) is not a storehouse of information but with the selection of the text by the translator it gains meaning. The translator aspires to produce a certain impact on the target readers. The ST leads for a thematic motivation, a canonical selection of the ST for translation as deliberate act. The paper tries to explore the translator’s political objectives behind translation, what is the process of translation? The role played by the translations and its reception of Jack Cade placing the analysis in the backdrop of other writings in the colonial context of Princely Mysore. The role played by translations in promoting the idea of Democracy and Responsible Government. Translation of Shakespeare’s Jack Cade is in blank verse. It is the shortest of the later tragedies and one most concentrated. It is a competent work. Jack Cade and his men are seen in the play showing that evil kills and brings about its own destruction. This seems part of consideration for public morality that DVG has been developing more positively in prose and verse elsewhere. The study tries to identify the purpose of translating JackCade Selection of the text, Methods of translation involved, the political ideologies behind translation, and the linguistic inappropriateness.

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