The Play out of Context
Subtitle: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture
Contributors: Hanna Scolnicov (Editor); Peter Holland (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780521344333
Subjects: Theatre, drama; Translation And Interpretation; Performing Arts/Dance; Drama; Performing Arts; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Translating; Theater and society; Stage adaptations; Linguistics; Theater - General; Drama--Translating--Congresses; Drama--Translating--Congresses Drama--Transla; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts-Theater - General; Congresses
First sentence: Chekhov did not believe that non-Russian audiences could possibly understand the full meaning of the selling of the estate in The Cherry Orchard.