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Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Series
Authors: Tosi Laura, Bassi Shaul
Language: EnglishKeywords
venetian; plays; theatrum; orbis; terrarum; pecorone; james; maclehose; gino; Young Men; benzoni; Richard III; Shakespeare’s Venetian Plays; Knolles’s Generall Historie; Negative Acceptations; Il Pecorone; Sixteenth Century Mediterranean; Fairy Tale; Venetian Plays; Shakespeare’s Venice; Portia's Victim; Shakespeare’s Early Comedies; Summa Potestas; Cyprus Wars; Joban Reference; Christ Child; Johan Zoffany; Uncleanly Apprehensions; Sir Henry Wood; Jewish Job; Lewes Lewkenor; Generall Historie; Absolute Ambiguity; Thomas’s History; San Giobbe
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Add to cart the print on demand of Tosi Laura, Bassi ShaulPublication date: 01-2011
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Publication date: 12-2019
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Part 1 Sources: Supersubtle Venetians Richard Knolles and the geopolitics of Shakespeare's Othello. Venice, Shakespeare and the Italian novella. Genealogy of a character: a reading of Giraldi's Moor. Part 2 Political Culture and Religious Policy in Venice and England: Shakespeare and republican Venice 'Self-sovereignty' and religion in Love's Labours Lost: from London to Venice via Navarre. Job in Venice: Shakespeare and the travails of universalism. Part 3 Crossing Boundaries and the Play of Identity 'Strangers ... with vs in Venice'. Shakespeare, Jonson and Venice: crossing boundaries in the city. The return of the dead in The Merchant of Venice. Othello and Venice: discrimination and projection. Part 4 Venetian Plays and their Afterlife: Merchant of where? The Venetian plays in English visual culture. Rewriting Venice and radicalizing Shylock: 19th-century French and Romanian adaptations of The Merchant of Venice. Barefoot to Palestine: the failed meetings of Shylock and Othello.
Laura Tosi is Associate professor of English Literature at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She specializes in Renaissance drama and children’s literature.
Shaul Bassi is Associate professor of English Literature at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He specializes in Shakespeare and postcolonial studies.
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