John Stone has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare’s Othello to be sent to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1765
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John Stone
BrowsingJohn Stone is a professor of English Literature at the UB’s Faculty of Philology and Communication, where he teaches 17th-, 18th– and 19th-century British literature. He has published a scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare (2004) in Catalan. He is also co-principal investigator, together with Professor Deanne Williams (University of York), of the research project “Shakespeare and Diasporic Book History in Iberia, 1592-1810 (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada)”, which focuses on the circulation of printed works through diasporic networks. His new research focuses on English as a language of culture in eighteenth-century Spain, with a particular emphasis on the formation of personal and institutional libraries, book smuggling, and cases of direct translation from English into Spanish. In 2020, John Stone discovered the first play by Shakespeare to arrive in Spain, and in 2021 he found the identity of the first translator of Dickens into Spanish
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