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Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two
Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant
of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the
relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer
new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection
fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical,
political and economic questions that have been raised in the last
few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well
as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple
resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the
later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities
in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of
the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact
that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously
topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of
early modern multiculturalism.
Children's literature: what are the greatest, most widely read,
most influential, most translated and most adapted classics? Lewis
Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the
Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio
(1883) must be prime candidates, and through them this book
explores what it means to be transnational fantasy icons - while at
the same time being deeply rooted in national cultures. How are
these books connected to the world's psyche through folktales and
fairy tales, while being quintessentially British and Italian, and
how have Alice and Pinocchio become staples of postmodernism? There
is an abundance of critical works on the Alice books and Pinocchio
as separate entities but there have been, until today, no scholarly
books that consider both together: broadly contemporaneous with
each other, and although they were published with radically
different political, social and cultural backgrounds, there are
surprising similarities between the Alice books and Pinocchio, and
between their authors' perspectives. This timely book fills this
gap: The Parallel Worlds of Alice and Pinocchio] is a parallel
reading of texts that are one-offs in their own countries, texts
that are very far from - and in many ways in direct opposition to -
the didactic turn in children's books. It ranges across the whole
spectrum of comparative literary studies, exploring such diverse
areas as imagology, cultural history, literary criticism and
biography, and extends the discussion into British and Italian
school and adventure stories.
Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two
Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant
of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the
relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer
new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection
fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical,
political and economic questions that have been raised in the last
few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well
as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple
resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the
later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities
in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of
the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact
that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously
topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of
early modern multiculturalism.
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