A Sinhala rendering of several of William Shakespeare's works, abridged, prepared by Premasiri Mahingoda. Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor, and among the pieces brought into Sinhala here is Romeo and Juliet.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, which matters if you are buying from outside Sri Lanka: this is not a bilingual edition and not an English one. A reader needs Sinhala to use it. The shortened form suits readers meeting these plays for the first time in their own language, and the volume gathers more than one work rather than presenting a single play on its own.
Shakespeare has been translated into Sinhala by a number of hands over the years, and condensed versions have long had a place in Sri Lankan reading and school libraries. This one comes from M. D. Gunasena & Co., a publishing house of long standing in Colombo that issues books in Sinhala and English.
Of interest to Sinhala readers building a shelf of world literature in translation, to households with children working through English drama at school, and to anyone abroad keeping up a Sinhala reading habit.
- Author: Premasiri Mahingoda
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552116582
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