He is remembered for his melodrama The Road to Ruin (performed 1792, often revived); his translation of Beaumarchais's play Le Mariage de Figaro (Paris, 1784) under the title The Follies of a Day (performed 1784), in which Holcroft played the part of Figaro; and his autobiography, edited in 1816 by his friend William Hazlitt.
Director Anne Bogart and her New York-based SITI Company return to the Getty to stage this rarely revived work, in a translation by Aaron Poochigian that cuts a decent enough compromise between archaic and accessible.
Yet only in the past couple of years has translation into English revived – largely thanks to the Georgian National Book Centre in Tbilisi, founded in 2014.
It was revived only with the numerous translations of Arabic astrological and astronomical treatises executed in Spain and Sicily in the 12th and 13th centuries, supplemented by a few translations directly from the Greek.
The German émigré and Princeton professor Walter Kaufmann almost single-handedly revived his standing with his many translations and forceful reminder that Nietzsche hated anti-Semites and German nationalists as well as woolly-headed romantics.
However, the growing interest in logic that began in the ninth century and then was revived in the eleventh century made Boethius' translation and Commentary on the Categories the center of attention on this topic.
This is an award-winning translation, so you're really going to get scared if it's not translated well, O.K.?" Ms. Winfrey revived her book club last June after a hiatus of more than a year.
It was revived by the gradual arrival from Spain and Sicily of translations of the entire corpus of Aristotle, often accompanied by Arabic and Hebrew commentaries and treatises.
Alack Sinner by Caros Sampayo and José Muñoz (TBC, IDW): After announcing a complete translation of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese, IDW's newly revived Euro Comics imprint looks to continue in similar, high-quality vein.
Some might find cartoon-based beauty collections (along with cupcakes, sparkly shoes and other relics of childhood recently revived for adults) bafflingly infantilizing, but not Steve Stoute, chief executive of Translation, an advertising agency in New York.
