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 ...

Translation and interpretation may be all that are needed to break the bulwark surrounding meanings of folktales in some remote cultures. Using a combination of Peircean’s semiotic objects, representamen and interpretant; ...

At the crossroad of themes and cultures, Wajdi Mouawad’s writing reflects a rhizomatic array of artistic genres and the most contemporary techniques of performance. Among the writing of this playwright, Seuls constitutes ...

Acclaimed by the public and critics of her time, Gret Palucca embodies one of the most eminent interpreters of GermanAusdrucktanz. A pupil of Mary Wigman, the dancer inaugurates the Palucca Hochschüle für Tanzin Dresden ...

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 ...

With a view to edit the Vocabolario del Siciliano Medievale(VSM), this paper collects somemarginal notes taken from the recent edition of the Inventario by Don Alvaro Paternò. We intendto test, for the first time on the ...