Shakespeare, Italy, and transnational exchange : early modern to present / edited by Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stamatakis, Chris, 1983- editor.

De Francisci, Enza, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 20.

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Italy.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Italy.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Italy.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Translations into Italian--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Italy.

English drama--Italian influences.

English drama.

Italy--In literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction / Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis

EARLY MODERN PERIOD: Dialogues and Networks. Shakespeare, Florio, and Love's Labour's Lost / Giulia Harding and Chris Stamatakis

A Tale of Two Tamings: Reading the Early Modern Shrew Debate from a Feminist Transnationalist Perspective / Celia R. Caputi

Shakespeare and the Commedia dell'Arte / Robert Henke

The Unfinished in Michelangelo and Othello / Rocco Coronato

Shakespeare and Italian Republicanism / John Drakakis

"A kind of conquest": The Erotics and Aesthetics of Italy in Cymbeline / Subha Mukherji

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES:Translation and Collaboration. The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Translations and Adaptations for Italian Audiences / Sandra Pietrini

Shakespeare's Reception in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Giulio Carcano's Translation of Macbeth / Giovanna Buonanno

Verdi's Shakespeare: Musical Translations and Authenticity / Rene Weis

Eleonora Duse as Juliet and Cleopatra / Anna Sica

Representations of Italy in the First Hebrew Translations of Shakespeare / Lily Kahn

Through the Fickle Glass: Rewriting and Rethinking Shakespeare's Sonnets in Italy / Matteo Brera

TWENTIETH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT: Originality and Ownership. Giovanni Grasso: The Other Othello in London / Enza De Francisci

Shakespeare, Vittorini, and the Anti-Fascist Struggle / Enrica Maria Ferrara

Hamlet's ghost: The Rewriting of Shakespeare in C. E. Gadda / Giuseppe Stellardi

The rest which is not silence: Shakespeare and Eugenio Montale / Camilla Caporicci

Giorgio Strehler's Il gioco dei potenti: A Shakespearean Master finds his Voice / Mace Perlman

Shakespeare behind Italian Bars: The Rebibbia Project, The Tempest, and Caesar must die / Mariangela Tempera

Shakespeare, Tradition, and the Avant-garde in Chiara Guidi's Macbeth su Macbeth su Macbeth / Sonia Massai and Chiara Guidi

Afterword: Shakespeare, an infinite stage / Paolo Puppa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare, Italy, and transnational exchange

ISBN:

9781138668911

1138668915

OCLC:

999800304