Staging the Spanish Golden Age : translation and performance / Kathleen Jeffs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffs, Kathleen, author.

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal Shakespeare Company.

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish drama.

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book offers first-hand experiences from the rehearsal room of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004–5 Spanish Golden Age season in order to put forth a collaborative model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Building on the RSC season, the volume proposes translation and communication methodologies that can feed the creative processes of working actors and directors, while maintaining an ethos of fidelity with regards to the original texts. A successful theatrical ensemble thrives on the mingling of these different voices directed towards a common goal. The work carried out during this season has repercussions in the areas comedia critics debate on the page; each of the chapters engages with one area of these overlapping disciplines. Now that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Spanish Golden Age season has closed, this book posits a model for future productions of the comedia in English, one that recognizes the need for the languages of the scholar and the theatre artist to be made mutually intelligible by the use of collaborative strategies, mediated by a consultant or dramaturg proficient in both tongues. This model applies more generally to theatrical collaborations involving a translator, writer, and director, and is intended to be useful for translation and performance processes in any language.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

List of Charts (Appendices)

Introduction

1 Pre-Rehearsal Questions of Performance Tradition and Play-Selection

2 Rehearsal and Translation

3 Polymetric Verse on Stage in Translation

4 (Un)Familiar Faces, Places, and Conflicts

5 Metatheatrical Staging

6 The Impact of the RSC’s Spanish Golden Age Season

Appendix A Stages of Translation: Diana’s Letter

Appendix B Stages of Translation: Teodoro’s Letter

Appendix C Verse Charts

Appendix D Mayors, Aldermen, and Scribes in Cervantes

Appendix E Line Attribution in El perro del hortelano

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-19-255140-X

0-19-255139-6