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The recent boom in translations of Ant nio José da Silva, O JudeuKeywords: translation , Ant nio José da Silva , Portuguese theater , Jewish literature Abstract: This article examines a curious phenomenon: the appearance of six translations of works by the eighteenth-century Portuguese comic playwright Ant nio José da Silva during the last twenty-two years, when there had been virtually no translations of his works in the previous two and a half centuries. The article examines various possible explanations; it offers no firm conclusions, but suggests some possibilities for further study.
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