Sfoglia per Soggetto "Shakespeare"
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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 ... -
Nadia Fusini, Vivere nella tempesta, Einaudi, Torino 2016. [Recensione]
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2016)Il volume di Nadia Fusini intende proporre una lettura nuova della Tempesta di Shakespeare, offrendo spazio non solo all’analisi critica della commedia del 1611 ma anche ad una riflessione storica e sopratutto autobiografica, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
«Stirring up the ashes»: Sony Iabou Tansi’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)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 ... -
“The written language of reality”: shakespearean adaptation and the cinematic sublime
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2018-10-10)The main purpose of my thesis is to explore filmic adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays in their interaction with contemporary cultural, social and political issues. The first chapter takes the hint from ... -
«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 ... -
Violence in ‘Titus Andronicus’: a Benjaminian approach
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)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 ...