Our specialist Dr Phil Errington discusses a German translation of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Cranach Press commissioned the renowned poet Gerhart Hauptmann to produce this new and “definitive” translation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.
From Ottoman Might to the Arab Revolt: The Hejaz Railway as Engineering Feat, Pilgrimage Highway, and Battleground
The Hejaz Railway, the lifeline of the Ottoman Empire in Arabia and a strategic target of the Arab Revolt, began to be constructed by imperial decree in 1900, at the behest of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). It was an astounding feat of engineering which...