The comedia in English : translation and performance /: translation and performance. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson.
• Other Names: De García, Susan Paun; Larson, Donald R, 1935-
• Contents: 1. Translating comedias into English verse for modern audiences / Dakin Matthews -- 2. Translating the polymetric comedia for performance (with special reference to Lope de Vega's Sonnets) / Victor Dixon -- 3. Lope de Vega in English: the historicised imagination / David Johnston -- 4. Found in translation: María de Zaya's Friendship betrayed and the English-speaking stage / Catherine Larson -- 5. Transformation and fluidity in the translation of classical texts for performance: the case of Cervantes's Entremeses / Dawn L. Smith -- 6. Translation as relocation / Ben Gunter -- 7. Rehearsing Spite for spite / Michael Halberstam -- 8. Directing Don Juan, the trickster of Seville / Anne McNaughton -- 9. Directing the comedia: notes on a process / Isaac Benabu -- 10. Tirso's Tamar untamed: a lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production / Jonathan Thacker -- 11. The loss of context and the traps of gender in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa/House of desires / Catherine M. Boyle -- 12. Tirso's Burlador de Sevilla as playtext in English / James Parr -- 13. Anne McNaughton's Don Juan: a rogue for all seasons / A. Robert Lauer -- 14. Aspectual, performative, and "foreign" Lope / Shakespeare: staging Capulets & Montagues and Peribáñez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian" / Susan L. Fischer -- 15. Zaya's comic sense: the first performance in English of La traición en la amistad / Sharon D. Voros -- 16. María de Zaya's Friendship betrayed à la Hollywood: translation, transculturation, and production / Barbara Mujica.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, UK Rochester, NY : Tamesis
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages)
• Subjects: 862.05230903; Spanish drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- Translations into English; Comédie espagnole -- Histoire et critique; DRAMA -- Continental European; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General; Spanish drama -- Classical period; Spanish drama (Comedy); Spanish literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Translations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846156199; 1282621270; 9781282621275; 9786612621277; 6612621273
• Related ISBNs: 184615619X; 9781855661691; 1855661691
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.