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Roman Shakespeare
on some aspects of Shakespeare’s plays, on contemporary theatre and
on dystopias. She has just completed a monograph on the tragedies of
Middleton after the revision of his canon, forthcoming in October 2018. Intersecting Times, Spaces, Languages
She organised the international conference Shakespeare 2016. Memoria di
Roma, together with colleagues from the other two universities in Rome. Daniela Guardamagna (ed.)
She has adapted for Italian television the BBC versions of Othello, Macbeth
and The Tempest.
ISBN 978-1-78707-967-0
www.peterlang.com Peter Lang
Cultural Interactions:
Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
This book addresses the memory of Rome: the dialectic between the glorious D
a
historical past of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and its echoes, n
i
e
representations and interpretations in the works of Shakespeare. The essays l
a
explore multiple layers of time and place in relation to Shakespearean plays: G
throughout the world (from Romania to Japan) and down the centuries, in the u
a
arts (paintings, music) and in dramatic performances. rd
a
m
Individual essays (by Michel Dobson, Peter Holland, Richard Wilson a
g
and Piero Boitani, among others) address multiple aspects of the complex n
a
relationship between two countries (England and Italy) and two moments in (
e
d
time (the Ancient Roman and Early Modern periods). Essays include analyses .
)
of less studied works (e.g. Cymbeline), rewritings of Roman narratives (e.g. Titus
Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece), modern enactments of Shakespearean
performances around the world, the representation of Shakespearean myths
R
in Renaissance paintings, and the music accompanying the text of Roman o
m
plays.
a
n
S
h
a
k
Daniela Guardamagna is Full Professor of English Literature at the e
s
University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she lectures on Shakespeare p
e
and Early Modern drama. Her main fi elds of study are Elizabethan and a
r
Jacobean drama, Shakespeare’s tragedies, Beckett, and dystopia. She has e
written extensively on Jacobean drama, on Shakespeare’s apocrypha,
Roman Shakespeare
on some aspects of Shakespeare’s plays, on contemporary theatre and
on dystopias. She has just completed a monograph on the tragedies of
Middleton after the revision of his canon, forthcoming in October 2018. Intersecting Times, Spaces, Languages
She organised the international conference Shakespeare 2016. Memoria di
Roma, together with colleagues from the other two universities in Rome. Daniela Guardamagna (ed.)
She has adapted for Italian television the BBC versions of Othello, Macbeth
and The Tempest.
ISBN 978-1-78707-967-0
www.peterlang.com Peter Lang
Roman Shakespeare
C I
ultural nteraCtIons
Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Edited by J.B. Bullen
Volume 42
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Daniela Guardamagna (ed.)
Roman Shakespeare
Intersecting Times, Spaces, Languages
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Guardamagna, Daniela, 1951- editor.
Title: Roman Shakespeare : intersecting times, spaces, languages / [edited
by] Daniela Guardamagna.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2018] | Series: Cultural
interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts; 42 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018011437 | ISBN 9781787079670 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Rome. |
Rome--In
literature. | Historical drama, English--History and criticism. | English
drama--Roman influences.
Classification: LCC PR3069.R6 R66 2018 | DDC 822.3/3--dc23 LC record
available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011437
ISSN 1662-0364
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Cover image: Shakespeare and Ancient Rome by Alessandro Serra.
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and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editor of this Work.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures ix
Daniela Guardamagna
Introduction: From Ancient Rome to Early Modern England
and Beyond 1
Michael Dobson
1 Nationalisms, National Theatres and the Return of
Julius Caesar 33
Peter Holland
2 Seeing Shakespeare’s Rome 57
Marisa Sestito
3 Caesar Our Contemporary: Shakespeare Revisited in Rome 73
Richard Wilson
4 ‘Broken Coriolanus’: T. S. Eliot’s March on Rome 91
Tommaso Continisio
5 The Cultural Shock of Titus Andronicus 123
Piero Boitani
6 Peripateia and Recognition of Divineness: Cymbeline 141
vi
daniela guardamagna
7 Visions of Lucrece: Shakespeare, Middleton and
Renaissance Art 155
Giuliano Pascucci
8 Music in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays 193
Notes on Contributors 217
Index 223
Acknowledgements
This book originated as one of the outputs of the international conference
Shakespeare 2016. The Memory of Rome, celebrating the fourth centenary of
Shakespeare’s death. The conference, which was held at the Capitol (Rome)
and in the three Roman universities in April 2016, was a joint venture of
Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and
Roma Tre University. The support and collaboration of ‘Roma Capitale’
and numerous important Italian and British associations was fundamental
and allowed many interesting collateral activities in the field of theatre
and music. Among these associations were the English and the Roman
Globe Theatres, the ‘Teatro di Roma’ and the ‘Teatro Palladio’. I feel I need
to thank the representatives of those institutions, my Rector Professor
Giuseppe Novelli and the director of my department, Professor Franco
Salvatori, who both supported the conference. Above all, thanks are due
to two colleagues from Sapienza and Roma Tre University, professors Rosy
Colombo and Maria Del Sapio, for their generous, indefatigable work,
which, together with their profound competence, guaranteed the success
of the conference (of which, I am told, a lasting memory luckily survives). I
also thank the many contributors, Shakespearean scholars of international
repute, to whom that success is due.
This collection of essays does not represent the outcome of the
conference: some essays will be published elsewhere and some essays by
internationally renowned and young Shakespearean scholars, on the subject
of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, have been added.
Finally, I thank my doctoral and MA students, who helped during the
conference, and some of whom have recently assisted me in the research
work a book of this sort entails.
D. G.
May 2018
