Comedia in English

Translation and Performance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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How should a seventeenth-centry Spanish verse play be presented to a contemporary English-speaking audience?For many reasons, but most usually the lack of playable modern translations, the plays of the seventeenth-century Spanish Comedia have appeared infrequently on the stages of the English-speaking world. Once such translations began to appear in the final decades of the twentieth century, productions followed and audiences were once again given the opportunity of discovering the enormous riches of this theatre.The bringing of Spanish seventeenth-century verse plays to the contemporary English-speaking stage involves a number of fundamental questions. Are verse translations preferable to prose, and if so, what kind of verse? To what degree should translations aim to be "faithful"? Which kinds of plays "work", and which do not? Which values and customs of the past present no difficulties for contemporary audiences, and which need to be decoded in performance? Which kinds of staging are suitable, and which are not? To what degree, if any, should one aim for "authenticity" in staging? And so on. In this volume, a distinguished group of translators, directors, and scholars explores these and related questions in illuminating and thought-provoking essays. EDITORS: Susan Paun de García and Donald Larson are Associate Professors of Spanish at the Universities of Denison and Ohio State respectively. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Isaac Benabu, Catherine Boyle, Victor Dixon, Susan Fischer, Michael Halberstam, David Johnston, Catherine Larson, A. Robert Lauer, Dakin Matthews, Anne McNaughton, Barbara Mujica, James Parr, Dawn Smith, Jonathan Thacker, Sharon Voros

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-19
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMonografías A
Antal sidor316
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781855661691

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The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and PerformanceTranslating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiences - Dakin MatthewsTranslating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance [with Special Ref erence to Lope de Vega's Sonnets] - Victor DixonLope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imagination - David JohnstonFound in Translation: María de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed and the En glish-Speaking Stage - Catherine LarsonTransformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Perfo rmance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremeses - Dawn L. SmithTranslation as Relocation - Ben GunterRehearsing Spite for Spite - Michael HalberstamDirecting Don Juan, The Trickster Of Seville - Anne McNaughtonDirecting the Comedia: Notes on a Process - Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Producti on - Jonathan W. ThackerThe Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of Desires - Catherine M. BoyleTirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Playtext in English - James ParrAnne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasons - A. Robert LauerAspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope/Shakespeare: Staging Capulet s & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"I> in "Sicilian" - Susan L. FischerZaya's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traición en la amistad - Sharon D VorosMaría de Zaya's Friendship Betrayed à la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Production - Barbara Mujica

[B]ooks like The Comedia in English will prove indispensible in helping to bridge the gap between comediantes and English-speaking practitioners, audiences, and critics alike. ROMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN [T]he book's variety of perspectives coupled with the quality of the articles, make this a work worthy of attention by anyone with an interest in the current state of the comedia in the Anglophone world, whether in Spanish or English translation.