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From Johann Nestroy’s Einen Jux will er sich machen
Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler
Das weite Land by Arthur Schnitzler
From Ferenc Molnár’s Játék a kastélyban
by Václav Havel
A translation when commissioned by a theatre is bespoke. There is no common principle uniting these five. Two of them, On the Razzle and Rough Crossing, are so free as to question their claim to be translations at all, yet they are unalike in the liberty they take. In the case of the other three, the goal was an English version as faithful to the original as the translator could make it, but by that measure the results in the event were various, too.
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