Roman Shakespeare

This book addresses the memory of Rome: the dialectic between the glorious historical past of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and its echoes, representations and interpretations in the works of Shakespeare. Topics include Shakespeare's rewritings of Roman narratives, modern performances of his work and the music accompanying Roman plays.

Autorentext

Daniela Guardamagna is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she lectures on Shakespeare and Early Modern drama. Her main fields of study are Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Shakespeare s tragedies, Beckett, and dystopia. She has written extensively on Jacobean drama, on Shakespeare s apocrypha, on some aspects of Shakespeare s plays, on contemporary theatre and on dystopias. She has just completed a monograph on the tragedies of Middleton after the revision of his canon, forthcoming in October 2018. She organised the international conference Shakespeare 2016. Memoria di Roma, together with colleagues from the other two universities in Rome. She has adapted for Italian television the BBC versions of Othello, Macbeth and The Tempest.

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CONTENTS: Daniela Guardamagna: Introduction: From Ancient Rome to Early Modern England and Beyond - Michael Dobson: Nationalisms, National Theatres and the Return of Julius Caesar - Peter Holland: Seeing Shakespeare's Rome - Marisa Sestito: Caesar Our Contemporary: Shakespeare Revisited in Rome - Richard Wilson: «Broken Coriolanus»: T. S. Eliot's March on Rome - Tommaso Continisio: The Cultural Shock of Titus Andronicus - Piero Boitani: Peripateia and Recognition of Divineness: Cymbeline - Daniela Guardamagna: Visions of Lucrece: Shakespeare, Middleton and Renaissance Art - Giuliano Pascucci: Music in Shakespeare's Roman Plays.