Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations Into ScotsBill Findlay Not only has the period of the past seventy years been the richest for literary translation into Scots since the sixteenth century, but it can claim to be the richest in terms of the quantity of work and the range of languages and genres translated. This collection of essays, by translators and critics, represents the first extended analysis of the nature and practice of modern translation into Scots. |
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
Shuihu Zhuan into Scots | 15 |
Translating Homers Odyssey | 38 |
Dario Fos Mistero Buffo into Scots | 53 |
Translating Register in Michel Tremblays Québécois Drama | 66 |
Robert Kemps Translations of Molière | 87 |
Liz Lochheads Translation | 106 |
Edwin Morgans Cyrano de Bergerac | 123 |
Mayakovsky and Morgan | 145 |
Robert Gariochs Translations of George Buchanans Latin | 171 |
Robert Garioch and Giuseppe Belli | 188 |
The Puddocks and The Burdies by Aristophanes and Douglas | 215 |
Sir Alexander Grays Danish | 231 |
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