Translating lexical items of Shakespeare's sonnets in the light of skopos theory

Abstract EN

Translating Shakespeare is an extremely challenging task because of the special nature and distinctive style of his language.

the sonnets has many unique characteristics that may obstacle translators from rendering the intended meaning into Arabic with high accuracy owing to its poetic nature.

this is a functional-linguistic study that delves into the problems of rendering lexical items in four translations of two sonnets and how the four translators in question succeed in fulfilling the intended skopos and consequently overcome the lexical translation problems for the sake of obtaining the intended function of the translation in the target culture.