This collection of essays is dedicated to the theory and practice of drama translation. The focus is on foreign-language plays translated into English and staged in Anglo-American theatres. In this connection, concepts like acculturation and cultural transfer,

Product Description: With around thirty novels, J.B. Priestley is a major twentieth-century novelist. His reputation as a dramatist, essayist and general man of letters has tended to obscure his solid and highly interesting achievement as a novelist. This monograph is the first to be wholly devoted to Priestley's novels and short stories, organised in large groups determined by theme and attitude, while not neglecting his narrative technique...read more

Product Description: The picture of Spanish Shakespeare has been greatly conditioned by the culture in which he was misappropriated in particular forms. Shakespeares reception has been a process of acculturation which includes assimilation, cultural fusion, and a new synthesis of cultural elements...read more

Product Description: This yearbook contains essays by international scholars which deal with the relationship of Shakespeare and higher education. Topics include teaching Shakespeare in the multicultural classroom; using performance pedagogy; and teaching Shakespeare to foreign language students. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This annual deals with all aspects of Shakespeare and his period, with particular emphases on theatre-orientated, comparative and interdisciplinary studies. This volume compiles essays on Shakespeare and his effect on the visual arts.

Product Description: This interdisciplinary Shakespeare yearbook is offered in four parts and covers reception, appropriation, translation including Shakespeare in Italian Romanticism, sources and cultures, representation and misrepresentation and intertextuality plus reviews. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A collection of essays by European and American contributors, this volume was compiled from the fifth Salzburg conference on the influence of war on art and literature. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Epizia" is a stage adaptation of Ecatommiti, volume VIII, chapter five, Giraldi's tale of an errant Governor of Innsbruck, who gets the virginal heroine to his bed with a false offer of marriage and an equally false promise to let her imprisoned brother out of gaol...read more

Product Description: This volume contains 32 essays which deal with modern trends in criticism in American and English literary and linguistic studies.

Product Description: A collection of essays by international Shakespeare scholars.