| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Theatre Translation in Performance; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Transnational, Multilingual, and Post-dramatic: Rethinking the Location of Translation in Contemporary Theatre; 2 Masks, Music Scores, and Hourglasses: Rethinking Performability through Metaphors; 3 Semantics and Syntax in Translating Shakespeare; 4 Verse Translation for the Theatre: A Spanish Example; 5 Performing Intertextuality in Translating Rewrites; 6 From the Peninsula Westward: A Journey among Translations |
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7 Exploring a Bilingual Aesthetics through Translation in Performance8 Beckett, 'Thou Art Translated'; 9 The Pirandellian mise-en-scène and the Vanishing Translation; 10 Translator and Director: At Daggers Drawn?; 11 Dramatic Text / Literary Translation / Staging; 12 Translating for the Audience: Plautus's Captivi by Accademici Intronati (Siena 1530) and Goldoni's Adaptation of Voltaire's L'Écossaise (Venezia 1761); 13 "To act, to do, to perform": Franz Heufeld's and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder's Hamlet-Adaptations for the German Stage |
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14 "For the Newer Stage" and "For Our Contemporary Emotion": Suggestion and Emotion in Hofmannsthal's Drama Translations15 Nogami Toyoichirō's Noh Translation Theories and the Primacy of Performance; 16 Transforming Shakespeare into a Kabuki Pièce for the Modern Audience: Ninagawa's Twelfth Night; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator, the director, and the actors. Exploring the role and function of the translator as co-subject of the performance, it addresses current issues concerning the role of the translator for the stage, as opposed to the one for the editorial market, within a multifarious cultural context. The current debate has shown a growing tendency to downplay and challenge the notion of translational ac |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Drama -- Translating.
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Theater.
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theater (discipline)
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Drama -- Translating
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Theater
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ambrosi, Paola
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Kofler, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781135103767 |
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1135103763 |
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