Cultural Dissemination and Translational Communities - 9781900650991

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Cultural Dissemination and Translational CommunitiesGerman Drama in English Translation 1900-1914\nAuthor(s): Katja Krebs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: St Jerome Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: St Jerome Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781900650991, 978-1900650991\nSynopsis\nThe early twentieth century is widely regarded as a crucial period in British theatre history: it witnessed radical reform and change with regard to textual, conceptual and institutional practices and functions. Theatre practitioners and cultural innovators such as translators Harley Granville Barker, William Archer and Jacob Thomas Grein, amongst others, laid the foundations during this period for - what is now regarded to be - modern British theatre.\n\nIn this groundbreaking work, Katja Krebs offers one of the first extended attempts to integrate translation history with theatre history by analyzing the relationship between translational practice and the development of domestic dramatic tradition. She examines the .