Author(s)

Chen Li ¹

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¹ School of Foreign Studies, Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530006, China

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ABSTRACT

Drama is a stage performing art in which actors play characters and perform on stage to achieve narrative purposes in the form of speech, movement, dance and so on. The literary concept of drama refers to the script, or play, written for a theatrical performance. Translation theorist Susan Basnett has accordingly proposed the famous principle of performability, which provides a new perspective for the study of drama translation. This paper examines and discusses the connotation of the principle of performability and its specific application in the translation of this play, taking the Chinese translation of Othello by the famous translator Zhu Shenghao as the object of study.

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Chen Li, A Study on Othello Translated by Zhu Shenghao from the Perspective of Performability. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 66-72. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060910.

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