Professor of Comparative Literature Carol Schreier Rupprecht participated in the 8th World Shakespeare Conference in Brisbane, Australia, in July. Her paper, “Othello in Other Words,” compared the Italian novella by Giraldi Cinthio, which was the primary source for Shakespeare’s “Othello, The Moor of Venice,” with the Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito for Verdi’s opera, “Otello.” The comparison, applying translation theory, was traced through Boito’s reliance on a French translation of Cinthio by Chappuys and of Shakespeare by François-Victor Hugo as well as Verdi’s reliance on three Italian translations of Shakespeare, including one in prose.
