Theatre translation in performance / edited by Silvia Bigliazzi, Peter Kofler, and Paola Ambrosi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ambrosi, Paola.

Bigliazzi, Silvia, 1968-

Kofler, Peter.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 29.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Translating.

Drama.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Taylor & Francis, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781135103750

1135103755

9780203073506

0203073509

9781299448100

1299448100

9781135103767

1135103763

OCLC:

836402609