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Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo
2017
The essay situates the “not Shakespeare” of this volume within the theoretical problematics of the “post-textual.” It re-elaborates the “post-textual” as the uncanny re-appearance of Shakespeare in the form of heterogeneous fragments that are made to cohabit with various textual and media environments. These media products include a “Shakespeare” that is not quite Shakespeare, an “entity” that becomes the site of unceasing transactions (for instance, between an “outside” and an “inside,” between visibility and invisibility, between the “original” and its iteration) and multiple contaminations (through media, characters, and plays).
States of Exception: Auto-immunity and the Body Politic in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
2010
The essay starts by referring to a central moment in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, when the Roman hero reacts to his banishment by banishing: “I banish you!" (3.3.123). These lines, the essay argues, provide, in a condensed form, a radical shift of perspective on the question of the boundaries of Rome: how far does Rome extend? Can Rome banish herself ? Does Rome move with Coriolanus as he moves “elsewhere” (3. 3. 135)? They also force the audience to reconsider the "nature" of the political decision that leads to the ban. Taking its cue from this line, the essay shows that the question of boundaries in Coriolanus is intimately connected with the uncanny logic of "auto-immunity" which affects R…
The emblem tradition in Shakespeare’s plays: mirror-effects and anamorphoses
2017
ABSTRACT: An emblem is a witty combination of various texts and one image which delivers a moral message. The emblem is an art of the gaze, the purpose of which is to lead the eye to the transcendent ideas lying behind the veil of worldly appearances. Shakespeare was obviously sensitive to the visual potential of emblems. This paper aims to show that Shakespeare drew upon the modus operandi of emblems but rejected the emblem as a fixed ideological discourse. Shakespeare used the emblem in an anamorphic way to confront the spectator with the shifting world he lives in. KEYWORDS: emblems; theater; Shakespeare. RESUMEN: Un emblema es una ingeniosa combinacion de varios textos y una imagen que …
“In States Unborn and Accents Yet Unknown”: Spectral Shakespeare in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die).
2014
The paper focuses on Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die) (2012), an Italian adaptation of Julius Caesar set in a high security prison in Rome with a cast entirely made of convicts or former convicts. It explores how this adaptation "deconstructs" and "rewrites" Shakespeare (from an "Interview" with the film directors), especially by setting Julius Caesar in the "unborn state" of a prison, and through the use of a number of "accents yet unknown"–the inclusion of "dialects" from the South of Italy that not only displace the English "original" but also "standard" Italian translations of the play. The paper argues that the "Shakespeare" that emerges from this film …
IMAGINED REBELLION: WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE WINTER'S TALE
2014
International audience; Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale features a pattern of violent rebellion that only just fails to happen. Such moments of near-rebellion, best interpreted through the play's master trope of the moving statue, constitute an exploration of the causes of political rebellion and how best to avert it. Thanks to the close integration of its romance aesthetics and political realism, The Winter's Tale can be read as a "Mirror for Kings".
A Quantitative Analysis of the Romanian Translations of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns
2020
This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the Romanian translations of 325 ribald Shakespearean puns, which originate in 20 plays and 71 renditions, with special focus on assessing the impact of translator-subjective and objective factors on the rendition process in the pre-communist, communist, and post-communist periods. The findings invalidate several widespread beliefs: Dragoș Protopopescu’s renditions, banned by the communist regime for their ‘modernizing’ approach to the Shakespearean text, bowdlerized more bawdy puns than ‘ESPLA’, which replaced it as the Party-approved Romanian edition of the dramatist’s plays; Adolphe Stern’s translations, harshly criticized in his period, f…
“The Shakespeare of Giorgio Melchiori: From Critical Pluralism to the Pluralism of Art”.
2010
Le dernier baiser de Roméo et Julette : comment mettre en scène l'intime?
2019
International audience
"Signore, che pazzi questi mortali!" Un percorso intorno al "Midsummer Night's Dream" di Benjamin Britten
2017
Il saggio prende le mosse dal "Midsummer Night's Dream" di William Shakespeare e dalle sue versioni e interpretazioni musicali a partire dal XVII secolo e descrive la genesi, la struttura e lo sviluppo drammaturgico dell'opera di Benjamin Britten, proponendone una dettagliata descrizione musicale.
Una relazione feconda: dal Macbeth alla poesia di Primo Levi
2021
Il rapporto intertestuale che corre tra i testi di Primo Levi e quelli di Shakespeare costituisce oggi una fra le zone meno esplorate dell’intera produzione leviana, e ciò è tanto più vero se si considera il corpus poetico. I due componimenti qui analizzati, Fuga e Il superstite (1984), anticipando temi e immagini che poi Levi approfondirà ne I sommersi e i salvati (1986), attingono non casualmente all’immaginario e al codice tragico del Macbeth, opera in cui è esplorato – e inscenato – il tormento incessante della colpa.