Early film theorist Ricciotto Canudo equated cinema with music because of the Seventh Art’s inherent plasticity; in 21st century, plasticity extends to soundtrack. In this article, I explore fusion musical genre opera. By considering that is a performative medium, beyond actors’ agency, confirm music’s importance it as part structure and style Unlike Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation Verdi’s opera...

Abstract The paper provides an overview of the interface contrastive and historical pragmatics a case study Othello’s monologue. emerging lines development at cross-roads cover, in particular, speech acts, forms discursive behaviour stance. In analysis, German, Swedish, Finnish Polish translations from different periods are compared to show differences above-mentioned features. illustrations co...