Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives
Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi
[Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] 2020. x, 292 pp.
Silvia Bigliazzi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Bigliazzi plays a role.
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Subjects Narrative Studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
2020 Chapter 6. Notes on Shakespeare, simulacra, and the aporias of ‘acting’ Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 215–243 | Chapter
The essay explores selected examples of theatrical and philosophical Italian responses to Shakespeare in relation to a diffused sense of crisis of representation, entailing a crisis of the subject, from the early 1980s to 2016. It investigates how after about more than three decades that sense of… read more
2020 Afterword Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 277–282 | Miscellaneous
2020 Chapter 1. 1916: Italian narratives of the Tercentenary crisis Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 25–49 | Chapter
The essay argues that Shakespeare’s Tercentenary in 1916, following the peak of his popularity on the nineteenth-century Italian stages, coincided with a peculiar cultural and political transition in Italy due to Italy’s ‘embarrassing’ entry into the war alongside the Entente in 1915. By… read more
2020 Introduction Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 1–21 | Introduction
2020 Chapter 3. Fascist crises: Shakespeare, ‘thou art mighty yet!’ Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 95–145 | Chapter
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was a play that Italian Fascism accurately exploited during various transitions in the history of its regime. Although in many respects a difficult play, full of thorny ambiguities for Fascist ideology, it offered good possibilities for propaganda, if appositely… read more
2020 Chapter 5. Allegorising and minoritising Richard III Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.), pp. 175–211 | Chapter
Against the backdrop of widespread topical readings of Richard III as post-war allegories of totalitarianisms ‘reconciling’ us with painful memories of trauma and monstrosity, this chapter discusses Carmelo Bene’s experiment in minoritisation as a form of political disengagement but also… read more