"Loyalty" in Can Yücel`s Shakespeare translation

This study aims at analysing three translations of Shakespeare by Can Yücel usingRaymond van den Broeck?s method regarding the analytic function of translation.The poetics, the ideology, the language and the discourse universe of both source andtarget texts were examined. Can Yücel?s own ideas on translation were also takeninto consideration during the analytical process.The target texts by Can Yücel, namely Bahar Noktası (1980), Fırtına (1991)and Hamlet (1992) were compared with the source texts by Shakespeare, entitled AMidsummer Night?s Dream (1595-6), The Tempest (1610-1611) and Hamlet (1600-1601) and were analysed. I reached the conclusion that Can Yücel aimed attranslating the source texts without sacrificing their sense and form. I also concludedthat Can Yücel did not disregard the fact that the source texts were originallyperformance texts and that their function of performability should be taken intoaccount. Can Yücel meant to translate the source texts to the target language in aform which would also be a performance text. The term ?loyalty? had a newperspective in this analysing process and I argued that the target texts by Can Yücelwere ?loyal? both according to Raymond van den Broeck?s method and in the frameof Yücel?s own translation principles.