- 191 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This book focuses on the various problems in the verbal and nonverbal translation and tranposition of drama from one language and cultural background into another and from the text on to the stage. It covers a range of previously unpublished essays specifically written on translation problems unique to drama, by playwrights and literary translators as well as theorists, scholars and teachers of drama and translation studies
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- The Languages of Theatre: Problems in the Translation and Transposition of Drama
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication: Drama as Translation
- Chapter 2. Rooted in Different Places
- Chapter 3. On the Open Stage
- Chapter 4. Translation, Adaptation and Interpretation of Dramatic Texts
- Chapter 5. Transcending Culture: A Cantonese Translation and Production of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
- Chapter 6. Audience Aids for Non-Literary Allusions? Observations on the Transposition of Essential Technicalities in the Sea Plays of Eugene O'Neill
- Chapter 7. Hazards of Adaptation: Anouilh's Antigone in English
- Chapter 8. Problems of Propriety and Authenticity in Translating Modern Drama
- Chapter 9. Henrik Ibsen in English Translation
- Chapter 10. Problems in Translating Sean O'Casey's Drama Juno and the Paycock into German
- Chapter 11. Translation: Changing the Code: Soyinka's Ironic Aetiology
- Chapter 12. The Synchronic Salome
- Chapter 13. Translating Literature/Translated Literature: The State of the Art
- Notes to Text