Czech translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets

The bachelor's thesis entitled The Tradition of the Sonnet and its Czech Translations in the first part deals with the historical development of the Italian sonnet, the expansion and adaptation of the sonnet in England ending with the sonnet of William Shakespeare. The second part focuses on the Shakespearean sonnet, specifically its translations into the Czech language, and an analysis and comparison are carried out from selected Czech translations of sonnets from the Sonnet collection of Shakespeare. Sonnets 12, 20, 35, 66, 94 and 135 of ten Czech translators were selected for the analysis, namely of Jan Vladislav, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Antonín Klášterský, Břetislav Hodek, Erik A. Saudek, Zdeněk Hron, Miroslav Macek, Martin Hilský, Miloslav Uličný and Jiří Josek. The last part outlines the approach to translation of each translator of Sonnets into Czech. The aim of this work is to give an idea of the issue of translating the English sonnet into the Czech language