Hamlet and the Oedipus Complex in Twentieth Century Spain. A Galician Translation of the Shakespearean Myth

Abstract

Reception Studies in XX-century Spain have recently started to pay attention to the role of Shakespeare in the complex Spanish scenario from the end of the 19th century up to the Democratic Transition of the 20th. Works such as Shakespeare in Catalan. Translating Imperialism (2007) by Helena Buffery should be thus considered a pivotal milestone in this tendency. However, as far as Galicia is concerned, Shakespearean reception in the North-Western region of Spain could not be explained without the works of Álvaro Cunqueiro and the Freudian interpretations of the Galician writer.