Invisible agents in translation history: Censors and actors in performed drama of 18th century England

Marinetti, Cristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5877-280X 2021. Invisible agents in translation history: Censors and actors in performed drama of 18th century England. Translation Studies 14 (3) , pp. 263-281. 10.1080/14781700.2020.1853600

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Abstract

In dialogue with the social turn in translation studies, this article uncovers the work of invisible agents shaping the translation of performed drama in eighteenth-century England. Unlike other genres, performed drama was subject to a system of state censorship that shaped translation practices in ways that have not been fully accounted for by translation historiography. Using Carlo Goldoni as a case study, the article reveals the intervention of censors and actors in shaping Goldoni’s translations, making visible for the first time the central role they played as ‘rewriters’ in English theatrical culture. In reading translation through the material conditions of eighteenth-century theatre, an argument is made for a re-evaluation of performed drama in the historiographical account of eighteenth-century translation in English.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	1478-1700
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 April 2020
Date of Acceptance:	16 January 2020
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 02:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/130866

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