This is a volume of essays, which examines the relationship between
the play and its historical and cultural contexts. Transferring
plays from one period or one culture to another is so much more
than translating the words from one language into another. The
contributors vary their approaches to this problem from the
theoretical to the practical, from the literary to the theatrical,
with plays examined both historically and synchronically. The
articles interact with each other, presenting a diversity of views
of the central theme and establishing a dialogue between scholars
of different cultures. With play texts quoted in English, the range
of themes stretches from a Japanese interpretation of Chekhov to
Shakespeare in Nazi Germany, and Racine borrowing from Sophocles.
Most of the essays are based on papers presented at the Jerusalem
Theatre Conference in 1986. The book will be of interest to
students and scholars of the theatre and of literature and literary
theory as well as to theatregoers.
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