Shakespeare's Ruins and Myth of Rome

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-55910-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

Reihe: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in the humanist endeavour to ‘resurrect’ the past, ‘ruins’ are seen as taking precedence over ‘myth’, in Shakespeare’s Rome. They are assigned the role of a heuristic model, and discovered in all their epistemic relevance in Shakespeare’s dramatic vision of history and his negotiation of modernity. This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare’s relationship with Rome’s authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the ‘eternal’ city as a ruinous scenario and hence the ways in which such a layered, ‘silent’, and aporetic scenario allows for an archaeo-anatomical approach to Shakespeare’s Roman works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Del Sapio Garbero, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1. Ruins

Part 2. The ruins of England

Chap. 1. Starting with the debris of finis imperii: Titus Andronicus

Chap. 2. Lucrece’s pictorial anatomy of ruin

Chap. 3. Anatomizing the body of a king: knowledge, conspiracy,

and memory in Julius Caesar

Chap. 4. ‘My memory is tired’: Coriolanus’s forgetful Humanism

Chap.5. ‘Caesar’s wing’: negotiating the myth of Rome in Cymbeline

Chap.6. World and ruin in Antony and Cleopatra. A conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Del Sapio Garbero is Professor Emerita of English Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Roma Tre University (Italy).