Translating Troilus and Cressida for an iconoclastic socialist production. Issue 1 (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nicolaescu, Madalina
• Other Names: Kapitaniak Pierre guest-editor.; Sakowska Aleksandra guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cahiers élisabéthains. Volume 99:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 102
• Page End: 112
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: Troilus and Cressida -- stage versus page translations -- unpublished stage versions -- David Esrig; Troïlus et Cressida -- traductions pour la scène et pour publication -- traductions pour la scène non publiées -- David Esrig; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Book reviews -- Periodicals; 820.9003
• DOI: 10.1177/0184767819835549
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0184-7678

Abstract

The focus of the article is the investigation of the stage version commissioned for the 1965 production of Troilus and Cressida directed by David Esrig. It looks at the tradition in Romania not to publish translations of Shakespeare produced for the stage before focusing on the differences between the two types of translation (page and stage) in the socialist period. Esrig's production is further discussed as a case study, comparing this version, by Florian Nicolau, with Leon Leviţchi's canonical one, published in 1960.