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Introduction In his 1997 essay, “Mapping Shakespeare’s Puns in French Translations”, Malcolm Offord lists forty of the more than 200 puns to be found in Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (LLL), nine of which he analyses as translated into French by François-Victor Hugo in 1866. 2 Offord divides Hugo’s “translation methods” (p. 254, Table) in six different categories: omissions, cognate terms, surface meaning, secondary meaning, both meanings, and new puns. Offord concludes that Hugo’s translation is “largely a ‘sanitized’ one, which amuses but is unlikely to produce the ‘dirty laughs’ Shakespeare’s text would have done” (1997, p. 254). In other words, Offord acknowledges 19 th -century conditions of (translated) text production. The author points out that sexual and scatological puns are generally disregarded in that French translation. Moreover, in quoting Herbert Ellis’s 1973 Shakespeare’s Lusty Punning in Love’s Labour’s Lost, with contemporary analogues, Offord mentions that much of the verbal humor in LLL may have been lost to us after four centuries of linguistic changes in the English language, and that Shakespearean scholars today are bound to see puns in the play where they were never intended. Lynne Magnusson (2002, p.158-159), in an essay on Shakespeare’s language regarding comic effects, discusses many of the wordplays found specifically in LLL, and writes:

THE VOICE OF THE TRANSLATOR AS HEARD IN BRAZILIAN AND EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE TRANSLATIONS OF PUNS IN LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST