Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare

Place, "Race," Politics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50285-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4199 g

Reihe: Reproducing Shakespeare

Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures,with Annalisa Oboe. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bassi, Shaul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Country Dispositions.- Part I. "Race".- 1. Iago's Race, Shakespeare's Ethnicities.- Slav-ing Othello.- Shakespeare, Nation, and Race in Fascist Italy.- Part II. Politics.- Neocon and Theoprog: The New Machiavellian Moment.- Infinite Minds: Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno Revisited.- Hamlet in Venice.- Part III. Place.- The Grave and the Ghetto: Shakespearean Places as Adaptations.- Fixed Figures: the Other Moors of Venice.- The Prison-House of Italy: Caesar Must Die.

Über Autor(innen)

Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi) and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe).