Shaul Bassi

Shakespeare¿s Italy and Italy¿s Shakespeare

Place, "Race," Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Reproducing Shakespeare
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50285-8
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781137502858
• ISBN-10: 1137502851
• Artikelnr.: 44430531

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.