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Includes the plays The Boat to Hell, The Boat to Purgatory, The Boat to Heaven
A trilogy of medieval morality plays that remain fiercely relevant today. Portuguese dramatist, Gil Vicente, puts humanity in the dock in three religious plays written between 1516 and 1519.
David Johnston
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David Johnston established the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University in 2004 and is now Emeritus Professor of Translation in the Centre. He has published extensively on the relationship between theory, practice and representation in the translation process, and has given invited lectures in thirty countries. He is a multi award-winning translator for the stage, described in Comedia Performance as 'the most innovative translator of Spanish Golden Age drama in the twenty-first century', and an elected member of the Academia Europaea, the pan-European academy for excellence in the arts, humanities and sciences.
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