Victor Carin (1 October 1933 – 2 January 1981) was a Scottish actor, director, and translator, who wrote for radio, television, film, and the stage.
Carin wrote in 1974 that he lived for a time in Italy "just after the war" and that part of his education included translating the works of Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni, as well as French plays, including works by Molière.
He joined the Gateway Theatre Company in 1961 as an actor, giving strong performances as Pantites in Ada F. Kay's The Man from Thermopylae (1961) and in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1962).
[3] He appeared in the critically acclaimed 1971 BBC television adaptation of the novel Sunset Song as Chae Strachan.
[12] Carin used an English intermediary text to create his version of the play and adapted it to take place in Scotland.
As a result his work is much less sophisticated than Goldoni's but if he loses some of the subtler moments of wit in the Italian original, there are plenty of forceful Scots idioms and exclamations to replace it.
[...] Goldoni would have been much more appreciative of The Servant o' Twa Maisters for all its alterations and innovations than the much more timid English translations, which are usually the non-Italian speaker's introduction to this fine play.