This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together
international scholars from English literature, Italian studies,
performance history, and comparative literature to offer new
perspectives on the vibrant engagements between Shakespeare and
Italian theatre, literary culture, and politics, from the sixteenth
to the twenty-first century. Chapters address the intricate,
two-way exchange between Shakespeare and Italy: how the artistic
and intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy shaped Shakespeare's
drama in his own time, and how the afterlife of Shakespeare's work
and reputation in Italy since the eighteenth century has permeated
Italian drama, poetry, opera, novels, and film. Responding to
exciting recent scholarship on Shakespeare and Italy, as well as
transnational theatre, this volume moves beyond conventional source
study and familiar questions about influence, location, and
adaptation to propose instead a new, evolving paradigm of cultural
interchange. Essays in this volume, ranging in methodology from
archival research to repertory study, are unified by an interest in
how Shakespeare's works represent and enact exchanges across the
linguistic, cultural, and political boundaries separating England
and Italy. Arranged chronologically, chapters address
historically-contingent cultural negotiations: from networks,
intertextual dialogues, and exchanges of ideas and people in the
early modern period to questions of authenticity and formations of
Italian cultural and national identity in the eighteenth and
nineteenth century. They also explore problems of originality and
ownership in twentieth- and twenty-first-century translations of
Shakespeare's works, and new settings and new media in highly
personalized revisions that often make a paradoxical return to
earlier origins. This book captures, defines, and explains these
lively, shifting currents of cultural interchange.
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