http://www.peren-revues.fr/coupdetheatre/751 Publications de Auteurs Maya Slater fr 0 http://www.peren-revues.fr/coupdetheatre/748 This paper aims at showing, with particular reference to my translation of Le Misanthrope, first, some of the problems that face a translator in trying to produce a faithful yet readable text. Secondly, it explores the difference between faithful translation and what is normally called “adaptation”, in which the translator takes enormous liberties with a text in order to produce a modern, updated play. I show that, for all its potential to energise and refresh a perhaps too well-known work, updating can be a dangerous process. Seemingly trivial changes to an original play can transform it in unexpected ways, and can have a huge impact on the text as a whole. These two points are illustrated through a particular speech from Molière’s Le Misanthrope, compared to my own translation and to Martin Crimp’s in his second version of the play. lun., 03 févr. 2025 08:39:44 +0100 mer., 08 juil. 2026 14:17:55 +0200 http://www.peren-revues.fr/coupdetheatre/748