J. Michael Walton

Found in Translation

Greek Drama in English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102896
• ISBN-10: 0521102898
• Artikelnr.: 25856823

Autorenporträt

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Drama at Hull University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Summon the Presbyterians'
1. Finding principles, finding a theory
2. Historical perspectives: Lumley to Lennox
3. Aeschylus and the Agamemnon: gilding the lily
4. Translating the mask: the non-verbal language
5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: words and concepts
6. Text and subtext: from bad to verse
7. Euripides' Medea and Alcestis: from sex to sentiment
8. The comic tradition
9. Modernising comedy
10. When is a translation not a translation?
Appendix
Notes
Select bibliography
Indexes.