The Play out of Context
Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture

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1. Introduction Hanna Scolnicov
2. The play: gateway to cultural dialogue Gershon Shaked, translated by Jeffrey Green
3. Problems of translation for the stage: interculturalism and post-modern theatre Patrice Pavis, translated by Loren Kruger
4. Space: the final frontier Peter Holland
5. 'If the salt have lost his savour': some 'useful' plays in and out of context on the London stage James Redmond
6. Mimesis, mirror, double Hanna Scolnicov
7. Greek drama in Rome: some aspects of cultural transposition Dwora Gilula
8. Shakespeare and theatre politics in the Third Reich Werner Habicht
9. The generation of Life Is a Dream from Oedipus the King Eli Rozik
10. Claudel and Vitez direct Molière Yehouda Moraly, translated by Daphne Leighton
11. The role of the target-system in theatrical adaptation: Jalāl's Egyptian-Arabic adaptation of Tartuffe Carol Bardenstein
12. Chekhov in limbo: British productions of the plays of Chekhov Vera Gottlieb
13. Intercultural aspects in post-modern theatre: a Japanese version of Chekhov's Three Sisters Erika Fischer-Lichte
14. Mr Godot will not come today Shoshana Weitz
15. The adaptation and reception in Germany of Edward Bond's Saved Ruth von Ledebur
16. Whose Life is it Anyway? in London and on Broadway: a contrastive analysis of the British and American versions of Brian Clark's play Albert-Reiner Glaap
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