Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers

ISBN-13: 9780367875688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str.

J. Michael Walton

Opis

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between 1997 and 2014. Of the four sections, each with a new introduction, the first two cover the history of translating classical drama into English and specific issues relating to translation for stage performance. The volume is a

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Contents

　

List of illustrations and copyright

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Translation in English

　

Introduction

Chapter 1 ‘An Agreeable Innovation’: Play and Translation

from Lianeri, Alexandra and Vanda Zajko (eds 2008), Translation and the Classic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 261–7. By permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 2 Theobald and Lintott: A Footnote on Early Translations of Greek Tragedy

from Arion Third Series, 16.3, Winter 2009, pp. 103–110.

Chapter 3 Benson, ‘Mushri’ and the First English Oresteia

from Arion, 14.2, Fall 2006, pp. 49–67.

Chapter 4 Business as Usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English Translation from Olson, S. Douglas (ed. 2014), Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter.

pp. 1040–61. By permission of De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston.

Part 2 Processes and Issues

Introduction

Chapter 5 ‘Good Manners, Decorum or the Public Peace’: Greek Drama and the Censor

from　Billiani, Francesca. (ed. 2007), Modes of Censorship and Translation: National Contexts and Diverse Media. Manchester & Kinderhook: St Jerome Publishing, pp. 143–66.

Chapter 6 Vacuum or Agenda: The Translator’s Dilemma

from Classical and Modern Literature, 27.1, (2007, pub. 2008),

pp. 93–120.

Chapter 7 Transfusion or Transgression: the translator as director in Medea

from Symposia Proceedings of the X (2000) and XI (2002) International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama. Athens (2008): The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, pp. 195–205.

　

　

O autorze

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull, UK.