Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700)

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2429-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Reihe: Benjamins Translation Library

From 1660 to 'c.'1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to be repeated until the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing a corpus of translated classical Spanish plays intended for performance, this book aims to show the strategies chosen by the translators concerned. Hence, many aspects present in the source texts are naturalized in order to meet the demands of the target culture, while others are kept to clarify the “Spanishness” of the text. This study draws significant conclusions on the validity of these mechanisms within the specific framework of Drama Translation Studies. This volume will be of interest to Hispanists, drama translation scholars and theatre practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braga Riera, Jorge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

ix
Introduction

xi–xv
Part I. Background

Chapter 1. On drama translation

3–34
Chapter 2. The translation of the Spanish classics in restoration England

35–60
Part II. Spanish comedias in English translation (1660-1700)

Chapter 3. Translators and translations

63–147
Chapter 4. Extralinguistic factors

149–178
Chapter 5. Culture

179–218
Chapter 6. The translation of the typical comedia motifs

219–307
Afterword: The comedia revisited. New challenges in the twenty-first century

309–312
References

313–326
Index

327–330