Visions of Venice in Shakespeare

Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781317001300
ISBN-13 : 1317001303
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Synopsis Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by : Laura Tosi

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.

Visions of Venice in Shakespeare

Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 1409405478
ISBN-13 : 9781409405474
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by : Laura Tosi

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. 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 about early modern globalization, multiculturalism, and multiple social and ethnic identities.

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780801457715
ISBN-13 : 0801457718
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds by : Carole Levin

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

Shakespeare and Venice

Shakespeare and Venice
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781317056317
ISBN-13 : 1317056310
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare and Venice by : Graham Holderness

Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis. Identifying and outlining the materials having to do with Venice which might have been available to Shakespeare, Holderness provides a full historical account of past and present Venetian myths and of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam. Holderness also provides detailed readings of both The Merchant of Venice and of Othello against these mythical and historical dimensions, and concludes with discussion of Venice's relevance to both the modern world and to the past.

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:31158000128339
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Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Merchant of Venice by : William Shakespeare

Apocalyptic Shakespeare

Apocalyptic Shakespeare
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9780786453511
ISBN-13 : 0786453516
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Apocalyptic Shakespeare by : Melissa Croteau

This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781040085646
ISBN-13 : 1040085644
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources by : Silvia Bigliazzi

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, Pasqualigo, and Groto, as well as on commedia dell’arte practices. This book discusses hitherto unexamined materials and revises received interpretations, disclosing the relevance of memorial processes within the broad field of intertextuality vis-à-vis conscious reuses and intentional practices.

Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781137491701
ISBN-13 : 1137491701
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare by : Shaul Bassi

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.

Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism

Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 676
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ISBN-10 : 9781527561076
ISBN-13 : 1527561070
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism by : Eric Harber

This book shows that, when Shakespeare wrote his plays, he responded to the political, religious and social conflicts in the Christianity of the day, giving those areas a new perspective through pagan (Italian and Greek) mythology. In particular, it offers a reading of The Winter’s Tale, which it has been said is “one of the most linguistically dense, emotionally demanding and spiritually rich of all the plays”. Productions as far afield as Mexico and Paris have brought Shakespeare’s plays up to date to enhance or challenge the lives of their communities. From South Africa to Gdansk, Shakespeare has been adapted to be read in schools. His plays have prompted a dialogue with many European scholars whom this book addresses.

The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9781003837602
ISBN-13 : 1003837603
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England by : Jade Standing

Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced A.I. systems. Acting in good conscience, consulting one’s conscience, and being conscience-wracked are all aspects of human intelligence that involve reckoning (deriving general laws from particular inputs and vice versa), and judgement (contemplating the relationship of the reckoning system to the world). While A.I. developers have mastered reckoning, they are still working towards the creation of judgement. This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in Everyman, Doctor Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. Academic, student, or general-interest readers discover the complexity and multiplicity of the early modern concept of conscience, which is informed by the scholastic intellectual tradition, juridical procedures of the court of Chancery, the practical advice of Protestant casuistry, and Reformation theology. The aims are to examine the rubrics for thinking through, regulating, and judging actions that define the various consciences of Shakespeare’s day, to use these rubrics to interpret questions of truth and action in early modern plays, and to offer insights into what it is about conscience that developers want to grasp to eliminate the difference between human and non-human intelligences, and achieve true A.I.