Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Drama at Hull University.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Summon the Presbyterians'; 1. Finding principles, finding a theory; 2. Historical perspectives: Lumley to Lennox; 3. Aeschylus and the Agamemnon: gilding the lily; 4. Translating the mask: the non-verbal language; 5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: words and concepts; 6. Text and subtext: from bad to verse; 7. Euripides' Medea and Alcestis: from sex to sentiment; 8. The comic tradition; 9. Modernising comedy; 10. When is a translation not a translation?; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.