SHAKESPEARE AND ITALY

Introduction: Shakespeare and Italy: Past and Present

Michele Marrapodi

Part I: Reception, Appropriation, Translation

Shakespeare in Italian Romanticism: Literary Querelles, Translations, and Interpretations

Angela Locatelli

Heroes of Two Worlds: Tommaso Salvini, Henry James and Othello's Ethnicity

Shaul Bassi

Macbeth Revisited: Verdi, Testori, Bene

Mariangela Tempera

Hamlet and the Troublesome Division of the Italian Widow

Rocco Coronato

Elizabethan Dramatists and Italian Books: Henry Cheke's Freewyl and the Social Context

Soko Tomita

Part II: Sources and Culture

Andrea Alciati's Emblem Books and Shakespeare's Drama: The Conference of Iconographic Significances and Theatrical Designs

Clayton G. Mackenzie

Another Time: The Venetian Calendar in Shakespeare's Plays

Steve Sohmer

`Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be': Moors, Turks, and Venetians in Othello

Bindu Malieckal

`A most extracting frenzy': Twelfth Night, Performance and the Traditions of English Petrarchism

Zara Bruzzi

The Regal Illusion: Machiavellian Strategies in the Speeches of Elizabeth I and in Shakespeare's Henry V

Donatella Montini

Part III: Representation and Misrepresentation

All's Well at the Decameron's Well: Women and Sexual Societal Healing in Boccaccio's Decameron III. 9 and Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well

Kay Stanton

`It is place which lessens and sets off: Perspective and Representation in Cymbeline

Lisa Hopkins

Iachimo's `Drug-Damn'd Italy' and the Problem of British National Character in Cymbeline

Thomas G. Olsen

`My lord, I fear, has forgot Britain': Rome, Italy, and the (Re) Construction of British National Identity

Michael J. Redmond

Misrepresentation through Porous Borders: Italy and the Concept of England in Shakespeare

J.B. Lethbridge

Part IV: Intertextuality

Crossdressing, New Comedy, and the Italianate Unity of The Taming of the Shrew

Michele Marrapodi

Shakespeare's Ariostan Skepticism

Lawrence F. Rhu

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte: An Intertextual Approach

Frances K. Barasch

The Counterfeit Innamorata, or, The Diva Vanishes

Pamela Brown

`The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword...': Italianate Cynicism, Knowledge of the World, and the Collapse of Chivalry in Troilus and Cressida

Mario Domenichelli

Shakespeare's Italy and England: The Translation of Culture and Empire

Jonathan Hart

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

``Like men at chess'': Time and Control in The Tempest

Eric C. Brown

Taming the Taiwanese Shrew: Kiss Me Nana at the Godot Theatre

Nanette Jaynes

REVIEWS

King Edward III, ed. Giorgio Melchiori (Sandra Clark)

William Shakespeare

Thwarting the Wayward Seas: A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare's `Pericles' in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Christopher Smith)

David Skeele

English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. (Richard Foulkes)