1 The Application of House’s Model on William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth ” and its Persian Translation by Ala’uddin

There are different Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) models, each introducing new ideas and novel ways to assess the quality of a translated work. These models, however, approach this task differently based on that theoretical frameworks to assess a translated work integratively, discretely, or a mix of them. House’s TQA Model seems to be a promising one to assess literary translation. Having reviewed the alternative TQA models, this study aimed at detailed investigation of House’s Translation Quality Assessment Model and its potential power to predict the errors in Persian translations of literary works. Ala’uddin Pasargadi’s Persian translation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth on the basis of House’s Translation Quality Assessment Model was carried out. Having introduced the model, definitions, and different stages of the assessment process, the researcher randomly selected some samples of Source Text and Target Text and analyzed them using House’s Model. First, the errors were identified, classified and the frequency of their occurrences was computed to see whether a statistically significant difference can be found. Chi-Square (2) statistical procedure was employed to compute differences between observed and expected frequencies of the errors which were categorized into “covertly erroneous errors ” and “overtly erroneous errors”. Overtly erroneous errors were further categorized into five categories: 1) No