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In this case study Perteghella analyzes the collaborative translation of La Tempesta by Shakespearean academic Agostino Lombardo, commissioned and then produced on stage by theatre director Giorgio Strehler in 1978. A contrastive analysis is carried out between the first translation Lombardo wrote for Strehler and Lombardo’s subsequent rewriting, which eventually became the script for the stage production. The analysis takes into consideration their discussions, ideas, and exchanges on the play and on the process of translation itself. The personal correspondence between Lombardo and Strehler, published together with the two translations in 2007 by Donzelli Editore and curated by Rosy Colombo, is here discussed, in order to understand the role of collaborative translation in stage production, and the relationship between artistic director and commissioned translator.
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Notes
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All English translations of extracts from the Italian articles, correspondence between Lombardo and Strehler, and notes on the scripts in the Donzelli publication (2007), are mine.
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For different perspectives on The Tempest, including its screen adaptations (see Bigliazzi and Calvi 2014).
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For a detailed and critical study of the intersemiotic translation of Strehler’s La tempesta, and in particular, of the director’s metatheatrical interpretation (see Bajma Griga 2003).
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Perteghella, M. (2018). ‘The Isle Is Full of Noises’: Italian Voices in Strehler’s La Tempesta . In: Boase-Beier, J., Fisher, L., Furukawa, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75753-7_14
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