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Play on! Tracy Young on translating 'The Winter's Tale'

Scenes from The Winter's Tale. Owen Jones. 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Scenes from The Winter's Tale. Owen Jones. 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.

If you’ve been following the Shakespeare & Beyond blog, you’ll know that the Folger has been doing a monthly series of Q&As with some of the playwrights and dramaturgs involved with Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play on! project to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into contemporary English.

In seasonal fashion as winter arrives, this month’s Q&A is with Tracy Young, the playwright who translated The Winter’s Tale for the Play on! project. As she explains, she previously directed the play for Ten Thousand Things in Minneapolis, adding an additional perspective to the project.