Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life

The Boundaries of Civic Space
Herausgeber: Bigliazzi, Silvia; Calvi, Lisanna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume introduces 'civic Shakespeare' as a category entailing the relation between the individual and the community on issues of authority, liberty, and cultural production. It investigates civic Shakespeare via Romeo and Juliet to interrogate the possibilities of theatre and the civic. The play's focus on civil strife, political challenge, and a new conception of the individual makes ideal for examining how early modern civic topics were received and reconfigured on stage, and how R&J has triggered new interpretations and civic performances over time. This book clarifies the role of theatre within civic space and questions the relation between citizens as spectators and the community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138839984
• ISBN-10: 1138839981
• Artikelnr.: 42743684

Autorenporträt

Silvia Bigliazzi is Professor of English Literature at Verona University. She has worked on literature and the visual arts, textual and theatrical performance (oc-ed, Theatre Translation in Performance, Routledge 2013), Shakespeare (Oltre il genere. Edizioni dell'Orso 2001; Nel prisma del nulla. Liguori 2005; Romeo e Giulietta, Einaudi 2012; co-ed, Revisting The Tempest. Palgrave 2014), and Donne (co-ed., Poesie, Rizzoli 2009). Lisanna Calvi is Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Verona. She is author of a book on Restoration tragedy (Kingship and Tragedy, 2005) and on James II (La corona e la Croce, 2009) and she has edited Memoria, maliconia e autobiografia dello spirito (Pacini 2012) and co-edited Revisiting The Tempest: The Capacity to Signify (Palgrave, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi Prologue: Shakespeare and
Verona Stanley Wells Part I: Dialectics of Private and Public Spaces 1.
Classical Paradigms of Tragic Choice in Civic Stories of Love and Death
Guido Avezzù 2. Private and Public Spheres and the 'Civic Turn' in Da
Porto, Bandello, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Robert Henke 3.
Shakespeare as 'Chief Architect and Plotter': Romeo and Juliet and Civic
Space Roy Eriksen 4. Inside-Outside: Love, Household, and City in Romeo and
Juliet Mera J. Flaumenhaft 5. Defiance and Denial: Paradigms of Civic
Transgression and Transcendence in Romeo and Juliet Silvia Bigliazzi 6.
Tying the Knot in "fair verona": the Private and Public Spaces of Marriage
in Romeo and Juliet Lisanna Calvi 7. Silencing the Natural Body: Notes on
the Monumental Body in Romeo and Juliet Silvia Bigliazzi and Lucia Nigri
Part II: Civic Performances and R&Jspaces 8. "For these dead birds sigh a
prayer" Paul Edmondson 9. "Wherefore art thou Marius?": otway's adaptation
of Romeo and Juliet Loretta Innocenti 10. Brooke, Garrick, Romeo and Juliet
, and the Public Sphere Michael Dobson 11. At Juliet's Tomb: Anglophone
Travel-Writing and Shakespeare's Verona, 1814-1914 Nicola J. Watson 12.
Producing a (R&)Jspace: Discursive and Social Practices in Verona Silvia
Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi 13. Perché sei tu?: Lindsay Kemp's "gift of
memory" Jacquelyn Bessell 14. Stage(d) Reconciliations: Romeo and Juliet
and the Politics of Bilingual Shakespeare Productions in Germany Bettina
Boecker Afterword: "What's past is prologue": Civic Shakespeare in Romeo
and Juliet and Beyond Ewan Fernie and Paul Edmondson