Bassi Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare

Place, "Race," Politics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49170-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, eBook

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Country Dispositions

Part I. "Race"
1) Iago's Race, Shakespeare's Ethnicities
2) Slav-ing Othello
3) Shakespeare, Nation, and Race in Fascist Italy

Part II. Politics
4) Neocon and Theoprog: The New Machiavellian Moment
5) Infinite Minds: Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno Revisited
6) Hamlet in Venice

Part III. Place
7) The Grave and the Ghetto: Shakespearean Places as Adaptations
8) Fixed Figures: the Other Moors of Venice
9) 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).