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Three Rules for Adapting and Translating the Ancient World
From the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Kumu Kahua Theatre co-production of Pidg Latin
Adapting a work originally written in a foreign language is easier when the author and all of the author’s relatives are dead. Lucky for me, the men and women who wrote the epics and plays and love poems that I adapt/translate for the stage have been dead for a couple of millennia. Still, that doesn’t let me off the hook completely. Around the world, there are thousands of classical scholars who preserve and defend Greek and Roman literature.
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