Helena Agarez Medeiros graduated in French and English Literatures from the University of Lisbon. Her MA degree was obtained with a dissertation on a Portuguese translation of Hamlet written by Don Luís, King of Portugal, in the early 1870s. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the Catholic University of Leuven, where she also carried out her post-doctoral research on the genesis and development of French autobiographical texts. Her main topic of research is the reception of Shakespearean drama in France and Portugal. She is currently Invited Assistant Professor at the Nova University in Lisbon.

• Contents: The origin of the construct «English taste» – Taste and translation – Voltaire’s La Mort de César – Aaron Hill’s The Roman Revenge.

Helena Agarez Medeiros graduated in French and English Literatures from the University of Lisbon. Her MA degree was obtained with a dissertation on a Portuguese translation of Hamlet written by Don Luís, King of Portugal, in the early 1870s. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the Catholic University of Leuven, where she also carried out her post-doctoral research on the genesis and development of French autobiographical texts. Her main topic of research is the reception of Shakespearean drama in France and Portugal. She is currently Invited Assistant Professor at the Nova University in Lisbon.

• Contents: The origin of the construct «English taste» – Taste and translation – Voltaire’s La Mort de César – Aaron Hill’s The Roman Revenge.

Helena Agarez Medeiros graduated in French and English Literatures from the University of Lisbon. Her MA degree was obtained with a dissertation on a Portuguese translation of Hamlet written by Don Luís, King of Portugal, in the early 1870s. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the Catholic University of Leuven, where she also carried out her post-doctoral research on the genesis and development of French autobiographical texts. Her main topic of research is the reception of Shakespearean drama in France and Portugal. She is currently Invited Assistant Professor at the Nova University in Lisbon.

• Contents: The origin of the construct «English taste» – Taste and translation – Voltaire’s La Mort de César – Aaron Hill’s The Roman Revenge.