Translating Classical Plays

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull, UK.

Contents



List of illustrations and copyright



Acknowledgments



Part 1 Translation in English



Introduction



Chapter 1 ‘An Agreeable Innovation’: Play and Translation



from Lianeri, Alexandra and Vanda Zajko (eds 2008), Translation and the Classic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 261–7. By permission of Oxford University Press.



Chapter 2 Theobald and Lintott: A Footnote on Early Translations of Greek Tragedy



from Arion Third Series, 16.3, Winter 2009, pp. 103–110.



Chapter 3 Benson, ‘Mushri’ and the First English Oresteia



from Arion, 14.2, Fall 2006, pp. 49–67.



Chapter 4 Business as Usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English Translation from Olson, S. Douglas (ed. 2014), Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter.



pp. 1040–61. By permission of De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston.



Part 2 Processes and Issues



Introduction



Chapter 5 ‘Good Manners, Decorum or the Public Peace’: Greek Drama and the Censor



from Billiani, Francesca. (ed. 2007), Modes of Censorship and Translation: National Contexts and Diverse Media. Manchester & Kinderhook: St Jerome Publishing, pp. 143–66.



Chapter 6 Vacuum or Agenda: The Translator’s Dilemma



from Classical and Modern Literature, 27.1, (2007, pub. 2008),



pp. 93–120.



Chapter 7 Transfusion or Transgression: the translator as director in Medea



from Symposia Proceedings of the X (2000) and XI (2002) International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama. Athens (2008): The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, pp. 195–205.