This book focuses on the various problems in the verbal and nonverbal translation and tranposition of drama from one language and cultural background into another and from the text on to the stage. It covers a range of previously unpublished essays specifically written on translation problems unique to drama, by playwrights and literary translators as well as theorists, scholars and teachers of drama and translation studies

Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use - ignorant of their origins - in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross-referenced in ways which will fascinate theatre-goers, help theatre students and encourage those engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles.

This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.

"This volume should be read by those interested in both theatre and interpretive strategies, semiological and otherwise." -- "Modern Language Notes"In "Languages of the Stage," Patrice Pavis explores the questions of semiology in both classical and contemporary drama, ranging widely over the works of the ancient Greeks, Marivaux, Artaud, Brecht, Brook, Handke, and Wilson.

This book is about the critical strategies that can be used to understand the dynamic processes involved in writing, reading, analysis, rehearsal, production, and reception of drama in both the classroom and the professional theater.

Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater