Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present

ISBN-13: 9780367877187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 310 str.

Enza de Francisci; Chris Stamatakis

Opis

In this interdisciplinary book, scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature offer new perspectives on the engagements between Shakespeare and Italian theatre, literary culture, and politics, from the 16th to the 21stcentury. Essays address how the artistic and intellectual culture of Renaiss

Recenzje

"Perhaps the most theatrical section of the book is “Shakespeare, tradition, and the Avant-Garde in Chiara Guidi’s Macbeth su Macbeth su Macbeth” since there is an interview conducted by Sonia Massai and while Chiara Guidi is answering the questions she reveals an innovative approach to Shakespeare and especially to his texts (his words, his language)." -- Necla Cikigil, Middle East Technical University

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Foreword, Susan Bassnett

Introduction, Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis

　

PART I:

Early Modern Period

Dialogues and Networks

1. Shakespeare, Florio, and Love’s Labour’s Lost

Giulia Harding and Chris Stamatakis

2. A Tale of Two Tamings: Reading the Early Modern Shrew Debate from a Feminist Transnationalist Perspective

Celia R. Caputi

3. Shakespeare and the Commedia dell’Arte

Robert Henke

4. The Unfinished in Michelangelo and Othello

Rocco Coronato

5. Shakespeare and Italian Republicanism

John Drakakis

6. "A kind of conquest": The Erotics and Aesthetics of Italy in Cymbeline

Subha Mukherji

PART II:

Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Translation and Collaboration

7. The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Translations and Adaptations for Italian Audiences

Sandra Pietrini

8. Shakespeare’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Giulio Carcano’s Translation of Macbeth

Giovanna Buonanno

9. Verdi’s Shakespeare: Musical Translations and Authenticity

René Weis

10. Eleonora Duse as Juliet and Cleopatra

Anna Sica

11. Representations of Italy in the First Hebrew Translations of Shakespeare

Lily Kahn

12. Through the Fickle Glass: Rewriting and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Italy

Matteo Brera

　

PART III:

Twentieth Century To The Present

Origin

O autorze

Enza De Francisci is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Chris Stamatakis is Lecturer in English at University College London, UK.