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In Tongues: Translation, Embodiment, Performance
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Anglophone scholars of performance should need only a moment's pause to realize that the relationship between translation and their conventional objects of study is a profound and significant one. In my own case, I used that pause for thought to recall Quince, one of the 'mechanicals' in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596?), who, upon discovering his friend's transformation into an ass, exclaims: “Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Though art translated!” (3.2.119). In this line, from one of Shakespeare's best-known and most frequently-performed plays, 'translation' is used in an expansive sense, reiterating the etymological origins of the term in the Latin translatus: being 'carried across', or moved from one place or condition to another. But of equal interest to this expansive usage – rare today – are the specific circumstances under which it is invoked. Bottom is placed under a spell and given asses' ears. In the theatre, this scene normally causes much hilarity, at least part of which derives from discovering the often ingenious ways in which actors, designer and director have chosen to effect the change on stage. In this complicated amalgamation of fictional and actual transformation, we can identify a characteristic of all theatrical performance: to the extent that it involves representation, it entails a carrying over of people, places, meanings and experiences from one state or place to another.2 Book Name: Translation in Asia |
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| Ending Page | 172 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 158 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315760117-14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-04-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Translation in Asia Theater Discovering Bottom Translation Performance Anglophone Scholars Equal Interest |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
