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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“Timely, inventive, and wide-ranging, Bassi has assembled a fascinating collection of encounters between Shakespeare and Italy, most of which will be unfamiliar to Anglophone readers—and to most Italian ones as well. At once a gifted storyteller and an alert commentator on cultural politics and critical theory, Bassi emphasizes the dynamic exchange between past and present and between literature and political philosophy.” (Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA)
“Dozens of books tell us what Shakespeare
made of Italy. This book is a dazzling revelation in telling us what Italy has
made, and continues to make, of Shakespeare ... . Bassi's historically alert,
theoretically acute, and beautifully written account maps this appropriation,
showing how Italy's reading, misreading, translating, and owning of Shakespeare
is a key to the nation's political unconscious. If you're interested in
global Shakespeare, if you're interested in Italy, this book is a must.” (Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of
English and Director of the CAPITAL Centre, The University of Warwick, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare
Book Subtitle: Place, "Race," Politics
Authors: Shaul Bassi
Series Title: Reproducing Shakespeare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49170-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50285-8Published: 13 May 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49170-1Published: 04 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9304
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9312
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 231
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature, Theatre History, European Culture