Because poetry is generally translated through paraphrase rather than formal attention.

Because translators often have to prioritize some formal pressures over others.

Because poetic translation can usually preserve formal and semantic dimensions together. 

Because poetic meaning is produced through sound, lineation, rhythm, and figurative patterning.

Speakability concerns whether lines can be delivered credibly in live speech. 

Performability concerns whether the text can function within action, rhythm, and staging. 

Speakability and performability describe the same quality from two angles.

Performability concerns whether diction and pronunciation remain consistently clear.

A new translation becomes necessary only when the source language itself has shifted.

A new translation usually demonstrates that earlier versions were conceptually mistaken.

A new translation may reactivate a work under changed historical and artistic conditions.

A new translation can stage a different reading of the work for a later audience.

Drama translation for reading usually excludes historical and cultural framing.

Theatre translation must anticipate actors, timing, and the practical conditions of staging. 

Theatre translation reduces textual nuance once rehearsal becomes part of the process. 

Theatre translation is directed toward enactment, while drama translation may remain primarily page-oriented.

Because theatrical institutions are normally restricted in their crediting terminology.

Because theatre practice often involves collaborative reshaping across several participants. 

Because translation ceases to matter once the work enters rehearsal and performance.

Because unstable terminology can obscure the interlingual labour behind the production. 

Translation in the arts remains primarily a stable transfer of verbal content. 

Translation becomes irrelevant once adaptation begins to shape the work.

Translation can reactivate works in new sensory and cultural environments.

Translation may become embodied, collaborative, and medium-specific.