Translating Classical Plays

Collected Papers
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-12432-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

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with the three Greek tragedians, and the Greek and Roman writers of old and new comedy, ending with the hitherto unpublished text of a Platform Lecture given at the National Theatre in London comparing the plays of Plautus with Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walton, J Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents



List of illustrations and copyright

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Translation in English



Introduction

Chapter 1 ‘An Agreeable Innovation’: Play and Translation

from Lianeri, Alexandra and Vanda Zajko (eds 2008), Translation and the Classic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 261–7. By permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 2 Theobald and Lintott: A Footnote on Early Translations of Greek Tragedy

from Arion Third Series, 16.3, Winter 2009, pp. 103–110.

Chapter 3 Benson, ‘Mushri’ and the First English Oresteia

from Arion, 14.2, Fall 2006, pp. 49–67.

Chapter 4 Business as Usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English Translation from Olson, S. Douglas (ed. 2014), Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter.

pp. 1040–61. By permission of De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston.

Part 2 Processes and Issues

Introduction

Chapter 5 ‘Good Manners, Decorum or the Public Peace’: Greek Drama and the Censor

from Billiani, Francesca. (ed. 2007), Modes of Censorship and Translation: National Contexts and Diverse Media. Manchester & Kinderhook: St Jerome Publishing, pp. 143–66.

Chapter 6 Vacuum or Agenda: The Translator’s Dilemma

from Classical and Modern Literature, 27.1, (2007, pub. 2008),

pp. 93–120.

Chapter 7 Transfusion or Transgression: the translator as director in Medea

from Symposia Proceedings of the X (2000) and XI (2002) International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama. Athens (2008): The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, pp. 195–205.





Part 3 Greek Tragedy

Introduction

Chapter 8 ‘Enough Give In It’: Translating the Classical Play

from Hardwick, Lorna and Christopher Stray (eds 2008), The Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 153–67.

By permission of Wiley publishers.

Chapter 9 ‘Men as they Ought to Be’: Sophocles in Translation

from Markantonatos, Andreas (ed. 2012), Brill’s Companion to Sophocles. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 619–39.

Chapter 10 The Translator’s Invisibility: Handling Irony

from GRAMMA vol. 22 (1), 2014, pp. 143–58.

Chapter 11 Hit or Myth: The Irish and Greek Tragedy

from McDonald, Marianne and J. Michael Walton (eds 2002), Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy. London: Methuen, pp. 3–36.

Courtesy of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Part 4 Greek and Roman Comedy

Introduction

Chapter 12 The Line or the Gag: Translating Classical Comedy

from Manchester University Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies: Occasional Papers, vol. 3, 2006, pp. 29-46.

Chapter 13 Aristophanes and the Theatre of Burlesque

from The Comparative Drama Conference Series Text and Presentation 2005, 2006, pp. 3-14.

Chapter 14 Realising Menander: Get-in at the Getty

from DRAMA Beiträge zum antiken Drama unde seiner Rezeption,

Band 5, 1997, pp. 171–92. By permission of J.B. Metzler Verlag GmbH.

Chapter 15 Shtick or Twist: from Plautus to the Musical

from a Platform Lecture on the Olivier stage of the National Theatre in London, under the title ‘Business as Usual: Plautus in the Marketplace’,

15 Sep 2004, before a performance of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Bibliography

Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull, UK.