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Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare : place, "race," politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bassi, Shaul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Reproducing Shakespeare.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Italy.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Settings.
Race in literature.
Politics in literature.
English drama > Italian influences.
Italy > In literature.
Italy > In motion pictures.
Table of Contents:
  • "Race." 1) Iago's race, Shakespeare's ethnicities
  • 2) Slav-ing Othello
  • 3) Shakespeare, nation, and race in fascist Italy
  • Politics. 4) Neocon and theoprog: the new Machiavellian moment
  • 5) Infinite minds: Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno revisited
  • 6) Hamlet in Venice
  • Place. 7) The grave and the ghetto: Shakespearean places as adaptations
  • 8) Fixed figures: the other moors of Venice
  • 9) The prison-house of Italy: Caesar must die.