Theatre translation studies: An overview of a burgeoning field (Part I: Up to the early 2000s)

Abstract

This article presents and discusses the history of the study of play translation, including reader-oriented and performance-oriented translation. It seeks to show the development of this field since its early years until the verge of its recent burgeoning. Therefore, it is mostly organised chronologically and extends from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Together with a later article dealing with the last decade, it will provide a comprehensive overview of what was once a neglected field but is not so anymore.