Staging the Spanish Golden Age: Translation and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780198819349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Kathleen Jeffs

Opis

This book takes the reader through the translation and performance processes of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to establish a model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama.

Recenzje

This well-written and thorough monograph is highly recommended for scholars and theater practitioners alike. Jeffs's notes on the translation process are appropriate for translators considering the comedia, and her writingstyle is approachable for students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Christopher C. Oechler, Bulletin of the Comediantes

O autorze

Kathleen Jeffs is Associate Professor at Gonzaga University. Previously, she served as Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project Out of the Wings (www.outofthewings.org) for which she was based at the University of Oxford. The aim of the project is to create a virtual environment geared for theatre practitioners and educators to spark new performances of Spanish drama in English translation. Dr Jeffs's doctoral research took place within the context of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age Season in 2004-05, for which she served as rehearsal dramaturg. Prior to her move to Gonzaga, she lectured on Golden Age drama at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and taught an undergraduate drama course at the University of Sussex.