Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare: Place, "Race," Politics

by Shaul Bassi

Overview

Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, with Annalisa Oboe. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137491701
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Reproducing Shakespeare
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	231
File size:	759 KB

About the Author

Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi) and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Country Dispositions.- Part I. "Race".- 1. Iago's Race, Shakespeare's Ethnicities.- Slav-ing Othello.- Shakespeare, Nation, and Race in Fascist Italy.- Part II. Politics.- Neocon and Theoprog: The New Machiavellian Moment.- Infinite Minds: Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno Revisited.- Hamlet in Venice.- Part III. Place.- The Grave and the Ghetto: Shakespearean Places as Adaptations.- Fixed Figures: the Other Moors of Venice.- The Prison-House of Italy: Caesar Must Die.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Timely, inventive, and wide-ranging, Bassi has assembled a fascinating collection of encounters between Shakespeare and Italy, most of which will be unfamiliar to Anglophone readers—and to most Italian ones as well. At once a gifted storyteller and an alert commentator on cultural politics and critical theory, Bassi emphasizes the dynamic exchange between past and present and between literature and political philosophy.” (Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA)

“Dozens of books tell us what Shakespeare made of Italy. This book is a dazzling revelation in telling us what Italy has made, and continues to make, of Shakespeare ... . Bassi's historically alert, theoretically acute, and beautifully written account maps this appropriation, showing how Italy's reading, misreading, translating, and owning of Shakespeare is a key to the nation's political unconscious. If you're interested in global Shakespeare, if you're interested in Italy, this book is a must.” (Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of English and Director of the CAPITAL Centre, The University of Warwick, UK)