Dorothea Tieck was a German

Germany

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 translator

Translation

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, known particularly for her translations of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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. She was born in Berlin

Berlin

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, Brandenburg

Province of Brandenburg

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, as the daughter of Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck

Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Early life:...

, and collaborated with her father and his Romantic

German Romanticism

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 literary circle, including August Wilhelm Schlegel and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. She completed the translation of Shakespeare's works her father had begun with Schlegel and Baudissin, and worked also on Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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 and other Spanish

Spanish literature

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 writers.

Her translation of Macbeth

Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...

is particularly noted and has frequently been republished alone. Her translation of one of the play's best-known speeches follows:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

Morgen, und morgen, und dann wieder morgen,
Kriecht so mit kleinem Schritt von Tag zu Tag,
Zur letzten Silb auf unserm Lebensblatt;
Und alle unsre Gestern führten Narren
Den Pfad zum staubigen Tod. Aus, kleines Licht!
Leben ist nur ein wandelnd Schattenbild,
Ein armer Komödiant, der spreizt und knirscht
Sein Stündchen auf der Bühn und dann nicht mehr
Vernommen wird; ein Märchen ists, erzählt
Von einem Blödling, voller Klang und Wut,
Das nichts bedeutet.

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