%0 Journal Article
%T Maria Sułkowska’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
%A Gibińska-Marzec, Marta
%J Przekładaniec
%V Issues in English
%R 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.043.1460
%N Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives
%P 154-170
%K Shakespeare’s sonnets, translation, Maria Sułkowska, Mus
%@ 1425-6851
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/maria-sulkowskas-translation-of-shakespeares-sonnets
%X 
	The paper presents the fi rst almost complete edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets
	in Polish which, appeared in 1913 and has since been forgotten. The translator, Maria
	Sułkowska, chose to appear under the pseudonym Mus. She omitted sonnets 134 and
	135 as untranslatable puns, and wrote a preface in verse where she expounded her
	views on Shakespeare’s Sonnets and their translation. Her version is shown in the light
	of a highly critical 1914 review and in the context of the fi rst Polish monograph on
	Shakespeare’s poetry by Roman Dyboski (1914) who quoted Sułkowska’s translation
	throughout, although with a few alterations of his own. Even though some of the sonnets
	must be a challenge to the Polish reader because of the choice of obsolete vocabulary or
	syntax, the whole merits attention for consistency of the translator’s decisions as well
	as the attention to detail.