At Guardia Sanframondi(BN), every seven years, the Madonna Assunta is celebrated with a very complex religious ritual that “stages” the corporal mortification of penitents; the immobile bodies of the figures ...

In 1933-34, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell honored twelve actresses and dancers from XVIIto XXcentury in The Famous Women Dinner Service, the Wedgewood dinner set which was one of Bell and ...

This paper offers an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus from the vantage of Walter Benjamin’s concept of«divine violence»,which he theorized in his early work A Critique of Violence(1921). Titus is ...

The work of two most relevant authors from the New Neapolitan Dramaturgy, Annibale Ruccello and Enzo Moscato, has been usually perceived through a cultural anthropological lensor has been read in the light of the Neapolitan ...

This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for ...

It has been acknowledged from ancient times that the mind can affect the body. However, although research in the field of human anatomy has investigated the nexus between melancholy and illness since its ...

This paper is an analysis which focuses on the vision and construction ofthe “others” in two Argentinean plays: Los hermanos queridos, written in 1978 by Carlos Gorostiza, and Príncipe azul, 1982, by Eugenio Griffero. These ...