Transposing Drama

Studies in Representation

  • Authors
  • Egil Törnqvist
Book

Part of the New Directions in Theatre book series (NDT)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Textual, Aural, Audiovisual
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 1-23
  3. Variations on the Audiovisual: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c. 1606)
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 24-61
  4. Representing the Source Text: Ibsen’s Et Dukkehjem/A Doll’s House (1879)
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 62-94
  5. Between Stage and Screen: Strindberg’s Spöksonaten/The Ghost Sonata (1907)
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 95-138
  6. Choosing the Medium: Pinter’s The Homecoming (1965)
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 139-167
  7. Medium and Vision
    Egil Törnqvist
    Pages 168-192
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 193-216
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About this book

Introduction

What happens when a play is transposed from one medium or mode of presentation to another? What occurs, for example, when a drama intended for readers in one language is translated into another, or when a play written for the stage is adapted for radio, television or film? Egil Trnqvist examines these questions in relation to Shakespeare's Macbeth, Ibsen's A Doll's House, Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata and Pinter's The Homecoming and discusses interpretive transformations achieved by Peter Hall, Ingmar Bergman and Roman Polanski.

Keywords

bibliography drama film Henrik Ibsen interpret knowledge language Macbeth play sonata stage television transformation William Shakespeare

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