The Klingon Hamlet (full title: The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'noS) was a project to translate William Shakespeare's Hamlet into Klingon, a constructed language first appearing in the television series Star Trek.
The impetus for the project came from a line from the motion picture Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in which the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon stated:
The phrase "the undiscovered country" comes from Hamlet, Act 3 S...
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The Klingon Hamlet (full title: The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'noS) was a project to translate William Shakespeare's Hamlet into Klingon, a constructed language first appearing in the television series Star Trek.
The impetus for the project came from a line from the motion picture Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in which the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon stated:
The phrase "the undiscovered country" comes from Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1, line 79, in his famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. The speech explicitly describes said country as "after death" (line 78), whereas Chancellor Gorkon interprets it as "the future".
The play was translated over several years by Nick Nicholas and Andrew Strader of the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project, with feedback and editorial assistance from Mark Shoulson, d'Armond Speers, and Will Martin.
Shakespeare in the "original Klingon" is an echo in the novel of Vladimir Nabokov's eponymous hero Pnin, who taught his American...
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