Staging the Spanish Golden Age: Translation and Performance

Kathleen Jeffs

Theatre & Dance

Research Output: Book/Report Book

Abstract

This book offers first-hand experiences from the rehearsal room of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004–5 Spanish Golden Age season in order to put forth a collaborative model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Building on the RSC season, the volume proposes translation and communication methodologies that can feed the creative processes of working actors and directors, while maintaining an ethos of fidelity with regards to the original texts. A successful theatrical ensemble thrives on the mingling of these different voices directed towards a common goal. The work carried out during this season has repercussions in the areas comedia critics debate on the page; each of the chapters engages with one area of these overlapping disciplines. Now that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Spanish Golden Age season has closed, this book posits a model for future productions of the comedia in English, one that recognizes the need for the languages of the scholar and the theatre artist to be made mutually intelligible by the use of collaborative strategies, mediated by a consultant or dramaturg proficient in both tongues. This model applies more generally to theatrical collaborations involving a translator, writer, and director, and is intended to be useful for translation and performance processes in any language.

Access to documents

10.1093/oso/9780198819349.001.0001

Bibliographic Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Book

Original language

American English

Publication milestones

Published - 26/04/2018

Publication status

Published - 26/04/2018

Place of publication

Oxford, UK

Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN (Print)

9780198819349

ISBN (Electronic)

9780191859908

Publication IDs

Scopus: 85051524242