| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 320 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "Summon the Presbyterians" -- Finding principles, finding a theory -- Historical perspectives : Lumley to Lennox -- Aeschylus and the Agamemnon : gilding the lily -- Translating the mask : the non-verbal language -- Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus : words and concepts -- Text and subtext : from bad to verse -- Euripides' Medea and Alcestis : from sex to sentiment -- The comic tradition -- Modernising comedy -- When is a translation not a translation? |
| Summary |
In considering the practice and theory of translating classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, this book also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating classical tragedy and comedy, here fully investigated for the first time, demonstrates how through the ages translators have, wittingly or unwittingly, appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect socio-political concerns of their own era. Chapters are devoted to topics including verse and prose, mask and non-verbal language, stage directions and subtext, and translating the comic. Among the plays discussed as 'case studies' are Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus and Euripides' Medea and Alcestis. This book concludes with a consideration of the boundaries between 'translation' and 'adaptation', followed by an appendix of every translation of Greek tragedy and comedy into English from the 1550s to the present day.--Book jacket flap. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek drama -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Greek drama. |
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Greek drama -- Stage history.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Translations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walton, J. Michael, 1939- Found in translation. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521861101 (DLC) 2006297168 (OCoLC)70664050 |
| ISBN |
9780511282058 (electronic book) |
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0511282052 (electronic book) |
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9780511584534 (e-book) |
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0511584539 (e-book) |
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1299398944 |
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9781299398948 |
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0521861101 |
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9780521861106 |
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9780521102896 (paperback) |
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