The Translation of Drama as a Tool of Nationalism. José Echegaray’s Works Staged by Central European Theatres in the Late 19th Century

Abstract

This study deals with the works of the Spanish playwright Jose Echegaray, the reception of their translations, and their adaptations in theatres in Vienna, Budapest and Pressburg (present-day Bratislava) in the late 19th century. With a view to the upcoming hundredth anniversary of signing the Treaty of Trianon, and of the establishment of the Slovak National Theatre (1920), the text considers translation as a tool to cement nationalism and shape the new countries in the early 20th century.