The Bacchae

讀書雜記2006
挫折：
重讀自己翻譯的Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming (1986)
Appendix: Transformation in Japan 後記 日本為什麼能？
章首兩引自『酒神』之言，中文版並沒有分別說明是誰對誰說的。
希臘人名之英文化也多不同：
THE BACCHAE OF EURIPIDES
TE DIONYSUS, THE GOD; _son of Zeus and of the Theban princess Semelê_.
CADMUS, _formerly King of Thebes, father of Semelê_.
TEIRESIAS, _an aged Theban prophet_.
參考羅念生翻譯的『酒神的伴侶』和Gutenberg收的英文本都找不到…….

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2007年起，有一齣精彩戲劇---根據 Ian Ruffell 的直譯本之The Bacchae 在英美兩國上演，參考許多相關戲評和訪問記：

Hitting your ear - Andrew Burnet talks to translator Ian Ruffell

I came across some lines that resonated very strongly with me. In the chorus, the Bacchae sing a hymn to the good things that come of accepting Dionysus and warn of what happens to those who don't. In the middle of this song, they sing: "To sophon d'ou sophia." It's a piece of Euripidean wordplay that Ian Ruffell, in the literal translation I adapted for the National Theatre of Scotland production, rendered as: "Wisdom is not cleverness."