By Enriqué Zumel
Translated by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Through that terrible crone’s interfering,
I move on from this place empty-handed.
From your hands we’d like to be hearing
Applause as the room you are clearing,
If pleased you “A Fiery Young Man” did.
By Federico García Lorca
Translated by Luigi Salerni
I don’t think it will occur to the other woman or the lady Secretary to come around here again when five years pass, but if they should come…
For the PDF of the current issue, please see the following link: The Mercurian Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2018).
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Spring 2018)
Welcome to the Spring 2018 issue of The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review!
By Francisco Bernardo de Quirós
Translated by Ben Gunter, Kerry Wilks, and Samuel (Chip) Worthington
I’ll be as still as a dead man. Marta, tell me, God’s truth, do you know what killed me?
Translated and adapted from the plays of Molière
By Mechele Leon
In adapting Impromptu, a play about Molière’s company in rehearsal, I invented a reimagined premise in which Molière’s company prepares to offer a command performance of The Imaginary Invalid at the Versailles Palace for Louis XIV.
By Molière
Translated by Jonathan Marks
It’s fine if they’re enlightened, in every way, but I don’t like this shocking passion to learn just to look learned.
Reviewed by Daniel Smith
With its fortuitous turns of phrase, elegance of style, and clarity of character voices, Tom Weber’s translation is a welcome addition to the canon of Marivaux plays in English.
Reviewed by Amelia Pareneau
On the whole, Campbell’s Contemporary French Plays spans the gamut of French drama, from the cinematic to the living room drama, the political to the romantic.
