Domesticating Ibsen for Italy
Enrico and Icilio Polese's Ibsen Campaign
di Giuliano D’Amico
Collana Biblioteca dello Spettacolo Nordico, n. 6
2013; I rist. 2026
pp. XIV-358
formato 12x19
Addomesticare Ibsen per l’Italia: la canonizzazione di un nuovo Ibsen “italiano” ad opera di Enrico e Icilio Polese, tra 1891 e 1894.
ABSTRACT/PROFILO DELL’OPERA
Why would Italian theatregoers not stop laughing when Henrik Ibsen’s characters talked about “the wild duck”? Why did Ghosts become Ibsen’s greatest success on the Italian stage, in contrast to its reception elsewhere in Europe? What kinds of challenges did Ibsen’s translators and middlemen face in Italy, and how did local audiences react to this new drama from the North? Domesticating Ibsen for Italy addresses such questions and investigates the radical transformations which occurred to Ibsen’s texts when they were first introduced in Italy. Domesticating Ibsen for Italy focuses on the “Ibsen campaign” run between 1891 and 1894 by the theatrical agents Enrico and Icilio Polese, who translated and introduced eight plays by Ibsen to the Italian stage. On the basis of extensive archival research and textual analysis of the translations, this book documents how the Poleses contributed to Ibsen’s canonization by moulding and marketing a new, “Italian” Ibsen.
Il volume (in lingua inglese) indaga le trasformazioni radicali che subirono i testi del grande drammaturgo norvegese quando furono introdotti sulle scene italiane, tra il 1891 e il 1894, dagli agenti teatrali Enrico e Icilio Polese, contribuendo alla canonizzazione di un nuovo Ibsen “italiano”.
AUTHOR/AUTORE
Giuliano D’Amico is a Professor of Scandinavian Literature and Director of the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo. He has published widely on Scandinavian literature, especially on the international reception of Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg. His latest monograph, Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen (2020), focuses on the concept of retrogardism in contemporary Scandinavian poetry.
Giuliano D'Amico è professore ordinario di letterature nordiche e direttore del Centre for Ibsen Studies dell’Università di Oslo. Ha all’attivo diversi studi di argomento nordico, in particolare sulla ricezione internazionale di Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun e August Strindberg. La sua monografia più recente, Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen (2020), si concentra sul concetto di retrogardismo nella poesia nordica contemporanea.
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Domesticating Ibsen for Italy
Enrico and Icilio Polese's Ibsen Campaign
2013; I rist. 2026
pp. XIV-358
formato 12x19
Addomesticare Ibsen per l’Italia: la canonizzazione di un nuovo Ibsen “italiano” ad opera di Enrico e Icilio Polese, tra 1891 e 1894.
ABSTRACT/PROFILO DELL’OPERA
Why would Italian theatregoers not stop laughing when Henrik Ibsen’s characters talked about “the wild duck”? Why did Ghosts become Ibsen’s greatest success on the Italian stage, in contrast to its reception elsewhere in Europe? What kinds of challenges did Ibsen’s translators and middlemen face in Italy, and how did local audiences react to this new drama from the North? Domesticating Ibsen for Italy addresses such questions and investigates the radical transformations which occurred to Ibsen’s texts when they were first introduced in Italy. Domesticating Ibsen for Italy focuses on the “Ibsen campaign” run between 1891 and 1894 by the theatrical agents Enrico and Icilio Polese, who translated and introduced eight plays by Ibsen to the Italian stage. On the basis of extensive archival research and textual analysis of the translations, this book documents how the Poleses contributed to Ibsen’s canonization by moulding and marketing a new, “Italian” Ibsen.
Il volume (in lingua inglese) indaga le trasformazioni radicali che subirono i testi del grande drammaturgo norvegese quando furono introdotti sulle scene italiane, tra il 1891 e il 1894, dagli agenti teatrali Enrico e Icilio Polese, contribuendo alla canonizzazione di un nuovo Ibsen “italiano”.
AUTHOR/AUTORE
Giuliano D’Amico is a Professor of Scandinavian Literature and Director of the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo. He has published widely on Scandinavian literature, especially on the international reception of Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg. His latest monograph, Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen (2020), focuses on the concept of retrogardism in contemporary Scandinavian poetry.
Giuliano D'Amico è professore ordinario di letterature nordiche e direttore del Centre for Ibsen Studies dell’Università di Oslo. Ha all’attivo diversi studi di argomento nordico, in particolare sulla ricezione internazionale di Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun e August Strindberg. La sua monografia più recente, Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen (2020), si concentra sul concetto di retrogardismo nella poesia nordica contemporanea.