Found in Translation - Greek Drama in English

Informationen zum Autor J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Drama at Hull University. Klappentext Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. Zusammenfassung This 2006 book addresses the issue of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating classical tragedy and comedy demonstrates how through the ages translators have! wittingly or unwittingly! appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect socio-political concerns of their own era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Summon the Presbyterians'; 1. Finding principles, finding a theory; 2. Historical perspectives: Lumley to Lennox; 3. Aeschylus and the Agamemnon: gilding the lily; 4. Translating the mask: the non-verbal language; 5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: words and concepts; 6. Text and subtext: from bad to verse; 7. Euripides' Medea and Alcestis: from sex to sentiment; 8. The comic tradition; 9. Modernising comedy; 10. When is a translation not a translation?; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: J. Michael Walton, J. Michael (University of Hull) Walton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102896
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10289-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Plays, playscripts, drama