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International Dramaturgy

Translation & Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

by Maya E. Roth (Volume editor) Sara Freeman (Volume editor)
©2008 Edited Collection 296 Pages
Series: Dramaturgies, Volume 23

Summary

This collection provides the first full-length investigation of the œuvre of one of Britain’s leading dramatists: Timberlake Wertenbaker. By considering the polyglot playwright’s theatre from translations and adaptations to new plays as a dynamic continuum of «translations and transformations», Maya Roth and Sara Freeman create an intriguing, focused frame for understanding Wertenbaker’s work as distinctly cross-cultural, theatrically rich, and intertextual, providing a prescient case study of the translational turn emerging in international theatre today. The contributors investigate translation theory and practice through Wertenbaker’s diverse linguistic and genre translations – from French, ancient Greek, and Italian to English, and from myth, history, classics, fairytale, and literature to the stage. Interrelated chapters by scholars and artists from varied countries, language traditions, and disciplines use performance studies, comparative literature, feminist theory, and cultural anthropology to position Wertenbaker’s theatre as a critical nexus for analyzing – and imagining – cross-historical dialogues with contemporary audiences and our plural legacies.
Thanks to its substantive engagement with the ethics, theories, and collaborative practices of theatrical translation and adaptation more broadly, and its equally rigorous examination of Wertenbaker’s hybridic politics and poetics, this collection can serve as a useful resource for scholars and artists, both.

Details

Pages
296
Publication Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9789052013961
Language
English
Keywords
Wertenbaker, Timberlake Übersetzung Intertextualität Kongress Washington (DC, 2006) Translation study Theatre Timberlake Wertenbaker
Published
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 296 pp.

Biographical notes

Maya E. Roth (Volume editor) Sara Freeman (Volume editor)

The Editors: Maya E. Roth fills an endowed professorship in Theater & Performance Studies at Georgetown University, where she was Program Director 2003-07. She teaches culture and performance, world theater history, and dramaturgy. An expert on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, she also publishes on spatiality and feminist performance in Anglophone drama. She served as the first Artistic Director of the Davis Center at Georgetown and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. Sara Freeman is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Oregon. She teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and dramaturgy. She publishes about the history of British alternative theatre and contemporary women playwrights and is the 2007 recipient of an honorable mention from the American Society of Theatre Research’s Gerald Kahan Scholars Prize for an article in Theater Survey. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002.

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