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The Comedia in English - Translation and Performance

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How should a seventeenth-centry Spanish verse play be presented to a contemporary English-speaking audience?

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The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and Performance
Translating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin Matthews
Translating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor Dixon
Lope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David Johnston
Found in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine Larson
Transformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. Smith
Translation as Relocation - Ben Gunter
Rehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael Halberstam
Directing Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughton
Directing the Comedia: Notes on a Process -
Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. Thacker
The Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. Boyle
Tirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James Parr
Anne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert Lauer
Aspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and > in "Sicilian" - Susan L. Fischer
Zaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D Voros
María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

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Authors Susan Paun de García
Assisted by Susan Paun de García (Editor), Donald Larson (Editor), Donald R. Larson (Editor), Susan Paun de Garca (Editor), Susan Paun de Garcia (Editor), Susan Paun de García (Editor)
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 19.06.2008
 
EAN 9781855661691
ISBN 978-1-85566-169-1
No. of pages 316
Dimensions 161 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
Weight 662 g
Series Monografías a
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese

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