This paper studies some characteristics of Melani’s verse translation (1942) of Lope de Vega’s El mejor alcalde, el rey, published in a context of prose translations of this playwright’s plays. After pointing out the distortions to which the respect of rhyme and metre obliged him, a possible alternative solution is presented and the advisability of maintaining rhyme in translations of golden age theatre texts is discussed.
Antonucci, F. (2025). "Il miglior giudice è il re de Raffaello Melani: un ensayo temprano de traducción en verso de un drama de Lope (El mejor alcalde, el rey)". In E.M. Claudia Demattè (a cura di), El teatro clásico español y su traducción entre texto literario y práctica escénica (pp. 65-74). Venezia : Edizioni Ca' Foscari [10.30687/978-88-6969-948-1/004].
"Il miglior giudice è il re de Raffaello Melani: un ensayo temprano de traducción en verso de un drama de Lope (El mejor alcalde, el rey)"
Antonucci, Fausta
2025-01-01
Abstract
This paper studies some characteristics of Melani’s verse translation (1942) of Lope de Vega’s El mejor alcalde, el rey, published in a context of prose translations of this playwright’s plays. After pointing out the distortions to which the respect of rhyme and metre obliged him, a possible alternative solution is presented and the advisability of maintaining rhyme in translations of golden age theatre texts is discussed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
