Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange : Early Modern to Present (Paperback)

CONTENTSAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword, Susan BassnettIntroduction, Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis　PART I:Early Modern PeriodDialogues and Networks1. Shakespeare, Florio, and Love’s Labour’s Lost Giulia Harding and Chris Stamatakis2. A Tale of Two Tamings: Reading the Early Modern Shrew Debate from a Feminist Transnationalist Perspective Celia R. Caputi 3. Shakespeare and the Commedia dell’Arte Robert Henke4. The Unfinished in Michelangelo and Othello Rocco Coronato 5. Shakespeare and Italian Republicanism John Drakakis6. "A kind of conquest": The Erotics and Aesthetics of Italy in Cymbeline Subha Mukherji PART II:Eighteenth And Nineteenth CenturiesTranslation and Collaboration7. The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Translations and Adaptations for Italian Audiences Sandra Pietrini8. Shakespeare’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Giulio Carcano’s Translation of Macbeth Giovanna Buonanno 9. Verdi’s Shakespeare: Musical Translations and Authenticity Rene Weis10. Eleonora Duse as Juliet and Cleopatra Anna Sica11. Representations of Italy in the First Hebrew Translations of Shakespeare Lily Kahn 12. Through the Fickle Glass: Rewriting and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Italy Matteo Brera 　PART III:Twentieth Century To The PresentOrigin