Incorporating comedy into the Anglophone canon

Abstract

This is a paper about pragmatics--light on theory, light on research, heavy on experience. I will wear two hats: as a translator, as a theatre artist/administrator. The goal is simple: to share with my colleagues some practical advice on achieving a goal we all think would be beneficial to Anglophone readers and audiences—securing comedias their rightful place in the Western Canon, not just as literary texts, but as performable—and performed--plays for English-speaking audiences.