RT Book, Section
T1 Drama Retranslation in Distinct Socio-Political Contexts: Accommodating Lope De Vega’s "Fuente Ovejuna" for the British Stage
A1 Braga Riera, Jorge
A2 Cadera, Susanne M
A2 Walsh, Andrew Samuel
AB This chapter focuses on two performable English retranslations of the Spanish classic Fuente Ovejuna (which premiered on British stages in 1936): Allan Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight’s All Citizens Are Soldiers (1967), and April De Angelis’s The Village (2018). It analyses the reception of Lope de Vega’s Golden Age classic at two temporally distant socio-political periods, and examines how one of its key themes, the revolt by the masses against subjugation, is portrayed in each case. A textual and paratextual examination of these English retranslations shows substantial alterations provoked by the source play’s relocation across spatial and temporal boundaries. The conclusions reveal the extent to which these two productions can be regarded as relevant at a particular time in the British theatrical culture, drawing particular attention to the need to re-evaluate the concept of ‘retranslation’ in dramatic literature.
PB Brill
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116443
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116443
LA eng
NO Braga Riera, Jorge: “Drama retranslation in distinct socio-political contexts: Accommodating Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna for the British Stage”, en Cadera, S. M. y Walsh, A. S. (eds.), Retranslation and reception: Studies in a European Context, Leiden y Boston, 2022, pp. 196-214.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025