In Harrop and Wiles journal article they argue that there is implicit performance actions suggested within the written body of a translated text. Beyond the general literary focus on the language or “lexis” of ancient Greek tragedies there is also said to be “schemata” or gesture present and able to be read between the lines of the written word (Harrop and Wiles 51). It is Aristotle’s concepts of “lexis” and “schemata” in playwriting, which the authors suggest should also remain “indiseverable” from each other in the translation of such plays (51).
The authors suggest that it is “the role of the modern translator”(63) to decode the implicit physical performance actions within the original text beyond a “linguistic level”(51). This article explores