Drama Translation and Theatre Practice

Contents: Manuela Perteghella: A Descriptive-Anthropological Model of Theatre Translation - David Johnston: Securing the Performability of the Play in Translation - J.-A. George: In Praise of Inauthenticity: 'Translating' Medieval and Tudor Plays - Sharon D. King: Les Enfants Sans Abri: Early Modern Theatre in a Postmodern World - Parvin Loloi/Glyn Pursglove: Translating Persian Drama: Problems (and Solutions?) - Abhijeet Paul: The Critique of Stagist History: Badal Sarkar's Michil (The Procession, 1974) - Janet Garton: Translating Ibsen: From Page to Page - to Stage? - Heinz Kosok: Cracks in the Jug: Recent Translations/Adaptations of Continental Plays by Irish Dramatists - Sirkku Aaltonen: Olga's Eightsome Reel in Edinburgh: A Case Study of Finnish Drama in English Translation - Cynthia Marsh: 'Whose Text Is It Anyway?' On Translating and Directing Gorky's Egor Bulychev - Cheryl Alexander Malcolm/David Malcolm: (Re)locating the Jew in Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Citizen Pekosiewicz: His Sad and Instructive History - Jiri Rambousek: Notes on Translation of Václav Havel's Plays - Petru Iamandi: Avoiding Topicality in Drama Translation: A Translator's Compromise - Elena Croitoru: Translating Culture-Specific Elements in I.L. Caragiale's Plays - Peter France: The Poet's 'Phèdre': Recent Translations by Ted Hughes and Edwin Morgan - Noël Peacock: Tony Harrison: Classical Vandal and/or Paradigmatic Translator - Maria Nadia Karsky: «Je vous prie de me laisser rire»: Translating Laughter in Molière - Haydn Mason: The Island of Slaves: Marivaux Translated - Adrienne Mason: The Time-Machine: Temporal Disjunctions in Translation and Performance of Marivaux's La Dispute - Rhonwen McCormack: La Dispute: The Modern Director's Viewpoint - Sabine Coelsch-Foisner: Così fan tutte - «They All Do It»: English Translation of Lorenzo Da Ponte's Libretto - Margaret Rose: Breaking Down Cultural Barriers: Contemporary Italian Drama Onstage in the UK - Manuela Foiera: Italian Futurism on Stage:

The Editors: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, born in Upper Austria (1960), teaches English Literature and Cultural Theory and runs an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Salzburg. Her publications include a study on William Morris and an award-winning study on Mid-Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry. Her main fields of research are cultural/critical theory, poetry, Victorian culture and literature, fantastic body transformations, literature and the arts.
Holger Klein, born in Dresden (1938), taught English and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (1970 to 1990) before moving to a chair in English at Poitiers, then at Salzburg. His main fields of research are Shakespeare, the early novel, war literature, modern drama and fiction, and literary translation.