The knowledge and the fortune of Charles Dickens’s works are also due to the beautiful illustrations of his short and long novels. The illustrations – painted by Cruikshank, Phiz, Leech – were reproduced as slides for ...

Starting from Victor Turner’s definitions of cultural performance and liminoid phenomena, the essay aims to analyse Wilkie Collins’s third novel, Hide and Seek (1854), which seems to be a sort of survey of the pastimes ...

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 ...

Starting from the remarkable intellectual bond linking James Boaden and Matthew Gregory Lewis, this paper investigates the nature of the relationship that, at the end of the eighteenth century, came to be established ...

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 ...

Attolino, Paola. “Licence to Adapt: the Resilience of the 007 Narration in Casino Royale.” «Testi e linguaggi» 7(2013):139-148. [Studi monografici. Letteratura in performance, a cura di A. D’Amelia e A. Piazza]

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 ...