{"product_id":"found-in-translation-greek-drama-in-english-paperback-9780521102896","title":"Found in Translation; Greek Drama in English (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521102896","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFound in Translation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGreek Drama in English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2006 book addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. Michael Walton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521102896, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[Walton's] book is packed with useful, accurate, and sometimes surprising information, including an extraordinarily conscientious appendix listing ‘All Greek Plays in English Translation’. The main body of the work is a series of studies of exemplary difficulties – the language of the Agamemnon, the non-verbal ‘language’ of gesture and action, the terms turannos and daimon in Oedipus Tyrannus, the rendition of deceit and duplicity, the difference in cultural values affecting the representation of women...the book is full of fine details, good anecdotes, and telling quotations.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Adrian Poole, Trinity College, Cambridge, Translation and Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating classical tragedy and comedy, here fully investigated, demonstrates how through the ages translators have, wittingly or unwittingly, appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect socio-political concerns of their own era. Chapters are devoted to topics including verse and prose, mask and non-verbal language, stage directions and subtext and translating the comic. Among the plays discussed as 'case studies' are Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Euripides' Medea and Alcestis. The book concludes with a consideration of the boundaries between 'translation' and 'adaptation', followed by an appendix of every translation of Greek tragedy and comedy into English from the 1550s to the present day.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: 'Summon the Presbyterians'\u003cbr\u003e 1. Finding principles, finding a theory\u003cbr\u003e 2. Historical perspectives: Lumley to Lennox\u003cbr\u003e 3. Aeschylus and the Agamemnon: gilding the lily\u003cbr\u003e 4. Translating the mask: the non-verbal language\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: words and concepts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Text and subtext: from bad to verse\u003cbr\u003e 7. Euripides' Medea and Alcestis: from sex to sentiment\u003cbr\u003e 8. The comic tradition\u003cbr\u003e 9. Modernising comedy\u003cbr\u003e 10. When is a translation not a translation?\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Indexes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005424783640,"sku":"9780521102896","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521102896i_990215a0-e110-494a-8821-538674fa0fdf.jpg?v=1694970848","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/found-in-translation-greek-drama-in-english-paperback-9780521102896","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}