Italian Directors Read Shakespeare: Film Adaptations of the Play “the Taming of the Shrew”
Italian Directors Read Shakespeare : Film Adaptations of the Play “the Taming of the Shrew”
Author(s): Sava Stamenković, Zoran StamenkovicSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Foreign languages learning, Studies of Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Italian literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: The Taming of the Shrew; Shakespeare; film adaptation; Ferdinando Maria Poggioli; Franco Zeffirelli; Castellano & Pipolo.
Summary/Abstract: Our paper analyses the Italian adaptations of William Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew,” i.e. films from 1942 (directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli), 1967 (Franco Zeffirelli) and 1980 (Castellano & Pipolo, i.e. Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia). We observe how the relationship between Katherina and Petruchio is shown and how the Shrew is changed or her actions are motivated. Our theoretical approach draws upon the classifications of film adaptations by Linda Costanzo Cahir, approaching the films in question as a literal, traditional or/and radical translation.
Journal: Studia Philologica Universitatis Velikotarnovensis
- Issue Year: 44/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 273-282
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
