Clevedon ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2004.

viii, 272 p. ; 22 cm.

Topics in translation ; 24

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Wale a leid an wale a warld: Shuihu Zhuan into Scots / Brian Holton -- Translating Homer's Odyssey / William Neill -- Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo into Scots / Stuart Hood -- Translating register in Michel Tremblay's Québécois drama / Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay -- Robert Kemp's Translations of Molière / Noël Peacock -- Triumphant Tartuffification: Liz Lochhead's translation of Molière's Tartuffe / Randall Stevenson -- Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac / David Kinloch -- Mayakovsky and Morgan / Stephen Mulrine -- Robert Garioch's translations of George Buchanan's Latin tragedies / Graham Tulloch -- Robert Garioch and Giuseppe Belli / Christopher Whyte -- The Puddocks and The Burdies 'by Aristophanes and Douglas Young' / J. Derrick McClure -- Translation and transplantation: Sir Alexander Gray's Danish ballads / Peter Graves and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.

Scots language -- Translating.

Translating and interpreting -- Scotland -- History.

Literature -- Translations into Scots -- History and criticism.

Findlay, Bill, 1947-

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