The Country Wife goes to Italy: two staged translations
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Date Issued
2024
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conferenceObject
Start Page
32
End Page
50
Abstract
The Country Wife’s fortune in Italy is not so irrelevant, especially in comparison with the corpus of Restoration theatre production, which has been neglected by literary and drama criticism and even more by the stage. Nevertheless, when it comes to actual stage performances, only two occurrences have been traced: La sposa di campagna, translated by Masolino d’Amico, directed by Sandro Sequi for Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Brescia, 1994; encore performance at Teatro Carignano, Turin, 1995; La sposa di campagna, free adaptation by Vito Boffoli, directed by Vito Boffoli for Teatrogruppo, Teatro Euclide, Roma, 2000, 2004. The analysis undertaken in this article on the texts used for these two mises-en-scène is to be understood as a practical contribution to the area of drama reception and as a particular case in the framework of theatre translation and adaptation studies.
Conference(s)
Bridges Across Cultures VII International Conference on the Humanities