Browsing Testi e linguaggi. Vol.7 (2013) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Weird and Queer on tv: The Taming of the Shrew between William Shakespeare and Sally Wainwright
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)The Taming of the Shrew produced by the bbc, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by David Richards is the last of a very long series of screen adaptations of the Shakespearean Shrew and was broadcast in 2005 together ... -
Looking for his “Part”: Performing Hamlet in new millennium Europe
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)Much has changed in Europe since the euphoria of the early nineteen-nineties of the last century: massive migration, pan-European Neo-Nazism, a new and active Moslem self-awareness, the resurgence of Russian Nationalism, ... -
Performative pop. Faserland (1995) di Christian Kracht
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)Kracht’s first novel is about a trip through Germany. The first-person narrator, a semialcoholic young man belonging to the upper class, travels from the north to the south of the country; he spends his time going to ... -
Memory and Performance in Dublin’s Art Scenario: Brian O’Doherty and Sebastian Barry
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)In 2008 Brian O’Doherty buried his alter ego, Patrick Ireland, in Dublin, as a consequence of peace having been restored in Northern Ireland. “We are burying hate”, said the New York artist of Irish origin, “it’s not ... -
Performing Dancing at Lughnasa on screen
(Roma : Carocci, 2013)Considered one of the most representative playwrights in the contemporary Irish scene, Brian Friel offers in his plays a changeable and inconstant perception of language, where words are mainly understood as transitory and ...
