The Languages of Theatre

This book focuses on the various problems in the verbal and nonverbal translation and tranposition of drama from one language and cultural background into another and from the text on to the stage. It covers a range of previously unpublished essays specifically written on translation problems unique to drama, by playwrights and literary translators as well as theorists, scholars and teachers of drama and translation studies

Students and researchers of applied linguistics, translation studies, comparative literature, drama, theatre studies and literary theory

(partial) Verbal and non-verbal communication, R. Gostand

Rooted in different places, A. Buzo

On the open stage, D. Hewett

Translation, adaptation and interpretation of dramatic texts, F.H. Link

Transcending culture, V.C.H. Ooi

Audience aids for non-literary allusions?, E.O. Fink

Hazards of adaptation: Anouilh's Antigone in English, I. Reid

Problems of propriety and authenticity in translating modern drama, O.D. Zuber

Henrik Ibsen in English translation, M.B. Akerholt

Problems in translating Sean O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock into German, U. Venneberg

Translation: changing the code: Soyinka's ironic aetiology, A. Lefevere

The synchronic Salome, M. Gaddis Rose

Translating literature/translated literature - The state of the art, A. Lefevere