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«Unsex Me Here»: Bodies and Femininity in the Performance History of Lady Macbeth
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)
Jenijoy La Belle argued that Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me here” speech expresses Lady
Macbeth’s desire to be made more masculine through amenorrhea. This amenorrhea
enables Duncan’s murder, but leaves her barren. La Belle’s ...
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: theatricality of reality against true love?
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)
Post-modernist film adaptations of Shakespeare often deconstruct the Shakespeare
myth, as do Baz Luhrmann’s prolific Romeo + Juliet (1996), Lloyd Kaufman’s lowbudget
Tromeo and Juliet (1996) and Fumitoshi Oizaki’s anime ...
Shakespeare’s language and the contemporary cinema audience
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)
Among the many difficulties which are encountered in realising the plays of Shakespeare
for the screen, perhaps the greatest is the translation from a primarily verbal
medium to a primarily visual one. The decisions made ...
Gender and Cross-dressing in the Seventeenth Century: Margaret Cavendish Reads Shakespeare
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)
Is there a woman in Shakespeare? This might sound facetious, but it is not so outlandish
in the context of boy actors. Elizabethan drama was after all designed and stagemanaged
by men mostly for men. In this context, is ...
«Music to Hear…»: da Shakespeare a Stravinsky
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)
Two of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 8 and 128, stage an intermedial dialogue between music
and poetry. This has challenged a number of modern composers to respond with their
own art, among them Igor Stravinsky with a so far ...