In 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.
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