1st Edition

Juan Mayorga Six Plays

Edited By Jerelyn Johnson, David Johnston Copyright 2024
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

Juan Mayorga: Six Plays is the first collection of Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga’s plays in English, offering a compelling insight into the extraordinary range and quality of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinctive voices. The six plays are presented in translations that are both readable and eminently performable. Each is accompanied by a translator’s note that discusses the... Read more

1. Action, Emotion, Poetry, and Thought: Introduction to Juan Mayorga and His Work

Jerelyn Johnson

2. Theater, Translation, and Philosophy

David Johnston

3. Way to Heaven (Himmelweg)

2.   4. The Boy at the Back

3.    5. Perpetual Peace

4.    6. The Mapmaker

5.    7. Reykjavik

6.    8. The Collection

Biography

Jerelyn Johnson is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

David Johnston is an award-winning translator and scholar, who is currently Professor of Translation and Interpreting at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Juan Mayorga is Spain’s most renowned living dramatist, best known in English-speaking countries for his 2004 play Way to Heaven (Himmelweg).