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9781855661691

Comedia in English

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    9781855661691

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    1855661691

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-18
  • Publisher: Tamesis Books Ltd
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Summary

How should a seventeenth-centry Spanish verse play be presented to a contemporary English-speaking audience?

Table of Contents

The Comedia in English: An Overview of Translation and Performancep. 1
Translating and Adapting the Comedja
Translating Comedias into English Verse for Modern Audiencesp. 37
Translating the Polymetric Comedia for Performance (with Special Reference to Lope de Vega's Sonnets)p. 54
Lope de Vega in English: The Historicised Imaginationp. 66
Found in Translation: Maria de Zayas's Friendship Betrayed and the English-Speaking Stagep. 83
Transformation and Fluidity in the Translation of Classical Texts for Performance: The Case of Cervantes's Entremesesp. 95
Translation as Relocationp. 108
Directing and Contextualizing the Comedia
Rehearsing Spite for Spitep. 127
Directing Don Juan, The Trickster Of Sevillep. 140
Directing the Comedia: Notes on a Processp. 153
Tirso's Tamar Untamed: A Lesson of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Productionp. 164
The Loss of Context and the Traps of Gender in Sor Juana's Los empenos de una casa / House of Desiresp. 177
Viewing and Reviewing the Comedia
Tirso's Burlador de Sevilla as Play text in Englishp. 189
Anne McNaughton's Don Juan: A Rogue for All Seasonsp. 202
Aspectual, Performative, and "Foreign" Lope / Shakespeare: Staging Capulets & Montagues and Peribahez in English and Romeo and Juliet in "Sicilian"p. 214
Zayas's Comic Sense: The First Performance in English of La traicion en la amistadp. 229
Maria de Zayas's Friendship Betrayed a la Hollywood: Translation, Transculturation, and Productionp. 240
Works Citedp. 255
Indexp. 277
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