Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

✍ Scribed by J. Michael Walton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between 1997 and 2014. Of the four sections, each with a new introduction, the first two cover the history of translating classical drama into English and specific issues relating to translation for stage performance. The latter two are concerned with the three Greek tragedians, and the Greek and Roman writers of old and new comedy, ending with the hitherto unpublished text of a Platform Lecture given at the National Theatre in London comparing the plays of Plautus with Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The volume is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in staging or translating classical drama.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations and copyright
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Translation in English
Introduction
1 ‘An agreeable innovation’: Play and translation Translation and the Classic (2008)
2 Theobald and Lintott: A footnote on early translations of Greek tragedy Arion (2009)
3 Benson, ‘Mushri’ and the first English Oresteia Arion (2006)
4 Business as usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English translation Ancient Comedy and Reception (2014)
Part 2 Processes and issues
Introduction
5 ‘Good manners, decorum or the public peace’: Greek drama and the censor Modes of Censorship and Translation (2007)
6 Vacuum or agenda: The translator’s dilemma Classical and Modern Literature (2007)
7 Transfusion or transgression: The translator as director in Medea Proceedings of the X and XI Meetings of the ECCD at Delphi
Part 3 Greek tragedy
Introduction
8 ‘Enough give in it’: Translating the classical play The Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions
9 ‘Men as they ought to be’: Sophocles in translation Brill’s Companion to Sophocles (2012)
10 The translator’s invisibility: Handling irony GRAMMA (2014)
11 Hit or myth: The Irish and Greek tragedy Methuen Drama (2002)
Part 4 Greek and Roman comedy
Introduction
12 The line or the gag: Translating classical comedy CTIA Occasional Papers (2006)
13 Aristophanes and the theatre of burlesque The Comparative Drama Conference, 2005
14 Realizing Menander: Get-in at the Getty DRAMA (1997)
15 Shtick or twist: Plautus to the musical National Theatre Platform Lecture (2004)
Bibliography and works cited
Translations
Index