The Play out of Context by Hanna Scolnicov
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.
"This is a very thoughtful, well-edited, provocative series of essays showing how new dramatic meanings arise from new circumstances" Comparative Drama
Hanna Scolnicov is Professor emerita of Theatre Studies and former Head of the School of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Arts at Tel-Aviv University, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has published books and essays, in English and Hebrew, on Adam de la Halle, Shakespeare, Jonson, Stoppard, Pinter and Chagall. Her writing focuses on the relationship between word and visual image.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521344333 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521344336 |
| Title | The Play out of Context |
| Author | Hanna Scolnicov |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1989-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
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