Taming and Timing: Translating 'The Taming of the Shrew' into Italian

In this essay I look back at my own translation of The Taming of the Shrew into Italian, published in 2018 by Feltrinelli (Milan), a major publishing house in Italy, to reframe the experience a posteriori within a theoretical context that draws on historical linguistic awareness as well as translation studies. While the field of translation is still often starkly divided when it comes to the opinions of practitioners and theoretical scholars, I will attempt here to bridge the gap between theory and practice, by using this opportunity to foreground and give fuller expression to theoretical questions that loomed in my mind throughout the translation process, before going on to consider some practical problems.