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Identity, otherness and empire in Shakespeare's Rome / edited by Maria Del Sapio Garbero.

  • Accession number

    83438688

  • Class

    Reading Room - 48 tragedies/IDE

  • ISBN

    9780754666486 (hbk.), 0754666484 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xi, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Shakespeare's Romulus and Remus: who does the wolf love? / Janet Adelman-- Acting the Roman: Coriolanus /Manfred Pfister -- Antony's ring: remediating ancient rhetoric on the Elizabethan stage / Maddalena Pennacchia -- Other from the body: sartorial metatheatre in Shakespeare's Cymbeline / Paola Colaiacomo --"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane: suicide, masculinity and national identity in Hamlet / Drew Daniel -- Fostering the question "Who plays the host?" / Maria del Sapio Garbero. UK-SuSCL Antony and Cleopatra and the overflowing of the Roman measure / Gilberto Sacerdoti -- Roman versus Barbarians: speaking the language of the Empire in Titus Andronicus / Barbara Antonucci -- In dialogue with the New: theorization on the New World in Titus Andronicus / Gilberta Golinelli -- Shakespeare's tales of two cities: London and Rome / Carlo Pagetti -- Shakespeare's writing of Rome in Cymbeline / Laura di Michele -- Shakespeare's Rome in Rome's Wooden "O" / Nancy Isenberg -- "They that have power" : the ethics of the Roman plays / Giorgio Melchiori. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic link with a distant and foreign ancestry.