Editorial

Abstract

Internationalising a periodical is not an easy task in an open and free publication system. Unlike many other countries, particularly the English-speaking ones, we seek to provide free access to the knowledge issued by the research we help disseminate.Thus, this process of internationalisation is a natural tool for better divulgation of the knowledge a journal like ours puts into circulation. Indeed, despite the huge effort, we have undertaken a process of expansion of boundaries and significant increase in the number of readers of Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença.The issue at hand carries out a second shift towards this very important goal, in order to give international visibility to our periodical: texts in different languages and translations.A first shift took place since the beginning of our activities, in 2011, and we have strived to offer readers translations of outstanding texts from foreign authors ever since, in addition to promoting domestic production. Now we are taking a step further, producing, with the highly qualified collaboration of professor Beatriz Trastoy (Buenos Aires University) a thematic section on Argentinian theatre -from the viewpoint of the notion of postdramatic -almost entirely in Spanish. Brazilian readers -who in their vast majority understand the language in its written form -are thus provided with access to this section, which also extends its scope to the Spanish-speaking community, the third largest in the world in terms of language.The section organised by our Argentinian colleague is particularly outstanding, with texts offering conceptually balanced