The website Shakespeare’s Words was also an enormous help. To help us in obtaining Shakespearean phrases and words, we read Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (i.e., watched the movies). Translation – There are no real set methods for translating, although we tried to keep true to the original meaning behind each rhyme complex. B-Rabbit faces off against three of these members in successive battles, but here we translate just the last battle against Papa Doc, the leader of the “Leaders of the Free World”. In addition, we analyze the quality and fidelity of our translation using the methods of Taivalkoski-Shilov (2008), which we describe below.īackground – The climax of 8 Mile is a rap battle between B-Rabbit and members of the “Leaders of the Free World”.
We focus on the movie’s climax: B-Rabbit’s last rap battle with Papa Doc. The goal of this paper is to jumpstart that translation of 8 Mile. Thus it would be interesting to see just how easily 8 Mile translates into EEE. However, from an historical and academic perspective, this omission is unfortunate, as Shakespeare’s works have often been compared to rap lyrics ( Brock 2009, Bradley and duBois 2011, Lars 2012, Akala 2012 click citations for links), and a recent analysis lists Shakespeare as having the 15th most unique vocabulary among rappers ( Daniels 2014). From a commercial perspective, this omission is perfectly understandable, as there seems to be few native EEE speakers alive today. Noticeably absent from this list is Elizabethan-Era English (EEE), the language used by William Shakespeare.
The movie 8 Mile, which chronicles the rise of aspiring rapper Jimmy ‘B-Rabbit’ Smith (played by Eminem), has been translated into over 15 languages including Russian, Dutch and Japanese. Temporal Translators Alliance 1 & Department of Quantitative Literature 1 SeptemProceedings of the Natural Institute of Science | Volume 1 | HARD 2 A Shakespearean translation of the last rap battle in 8 Mile, with a subsequent analysis of its quality
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