David Johnston

Translating the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age (eBook, ePUB)

A Story of Chance and Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What this book most definitely is not is yet another academic discussion of Lope de Vega, Calderon and their contemporaries, divorced from any understanding of what makes these plays work so brilliantly on our stages. Instead it is a leading contemporary translator's account of why these plays deserve to assume their rightful place in our performance repertoire, firmly set within the demands and opportunities of how our theatre works.

In a way it is the story of a love affair between a translator and a dramatic tradition whose riches are only now becoming apparent to theatre audiences; but it is also an exploration of the ways in which translation itself takes plays that are distant from us in time and space and makes them real and visible in terms of our own experience and our contemporary sensibilities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783195350
• Artikelnr.: 42517774

Autorenporträt

David Johnston is a multi-award-winning translator for the stage. As well as translating Golden Age theatre, he has written translations of other Spanish-language writers, including Vargas Llosa, Edgar Chías, Valle-Inclán, García Lorca, and Juan Mayorga. He lives and works in Belfast.