Published: 2020-05-06

Preface to Special Issue on Performance and Translation

Ralf Remshardt

v-vii

Abstract

In this special issue of Delos, the contributors focus on translation and performance,
translation for performance.

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“Bak Cheomji’s Sightseeing” from Kkokdugaksi Noreum, a Korean Traditional Puppet Play

Mina Kyounghye Kwon

1-19

Abstract

With a translation from the Korean of “Bak Cheomji’s Sightseeing"

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Translating the Gestus of “Mac the Knife”

Peter W. Ferran

35-43

Abstract

“Die Moritat von Mackie Messer,” probably the most famous theatre song of the twentieth century, is known to most Americans simply as “Mac the...

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El Poder y Educación: Bilingualism and Translation in the American Musical

Colleen Rua

45-61

Abstract

Historically, Latinx characters on the Broadway stage have been largely stereo­typical and fetishized, as exemplified by...

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Translating Affect: David Bowie’s Lazarus in German

Susan Ingram

63-79

Abstract

A little over a month before his death on January 10, 2016, David Bowie had the pleasure of attending the New York première of...

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“Going out in Italian”: Translating Southern Italian Post-Coloniality in Emma Dante’s Play mPalermu

Francesca Spedalieri

81-95

Abstract
With an accompanying translation from Sicilian, Neapolitan, and Italian of “The Awakening” from mPalermu by Emma Dante

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Four Cabaret Songs by Frank Wedekind

Ralf Remshardt

25-33

Abstract

Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Wedekind (1864–1918) was a German poet, play­wright, essayist, and novelist. He had a passing job in advertising—he...

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Four excerpts from the Hamburgische Dramaturgie by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Caron Cadle

20-24

Abstract

The Hamburgische Dramaturgie was written and published in pieces while Lessing was writer-in-residence at the National...

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PERIPATÉTICO (poema-de-chão) by Beatriz Azevedo

Charles A. Perrone

97-99

Abstract
Beatriz Azevedo (b. São Paulo, Brazil) is a poet and performing singer-songwriter who has published three volumes of contemporary verse and issued...

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Olga Tokarczuk: The Right Time and Place

Stephen Rojcewicz

101-115

Abstract

Olga Tokarczuk. Bieguni. Kraków, Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008.

——. Flights....

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