IL BERRETTO A SONAGLI IN NEAPOLITAN TRANSLATION BY EDUARDO DE FILIPPO

Abstract

This article is devoted to various versions of the script of Il berretto a sonagli by Luigi Pirandello. The play was important also for another Italian playwriter, Eduardo de Filipppo, who at the request of the author, translated the play to the Neapolitan dialect and staged it in 1936 in Naples. De Filippo staged the play also the second time at the end of his life, in 1979 in Rome. The article analyses both versions of the play, i.e. the Sicilian script by Pirandello and its Neapolitan translation made by De Filippo. It is noticed that the most significant differences occurred in the semantic level.