Translation Poetics and the Stage

<p>This book proposes a socio-cultural model of translation taking into account how a translation functions in the receiving culture. It studies successive translations of Hamlet from the eighteenth century neoclassical version of Jean-Francois Ducis to the 20th-century Lacanian post-structuralist stage production of Daniel Mesguich each chapter focusing on a different aspect of the changing theatrical and literary norms.</p>