Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and civic life : the boundaries of civic space / edited by Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bigliazzi, Silvia, 1968-
• Calvi, Lisanna

Description

vi, 313 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 14

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 14.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William)
• 1500-1699
• Literature and society > England > History > 16th century
• Literature and society > England > History > 17th century
• Literature and society
• Bürgerliche Gesellschaft
• England

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi -- Prologue: Shakespeare and Verona / Stanley Wells -- Part I. Dialectics of private and public spaces. -- 1. Classical paradigms of tragic choice in civic stories of love and death / Guido Avezzù -- 2. Private and public spheres and the 'civic turn' in Da Porto, Bandello, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Robert Henke -- 3. Shakespeare as 'chief architect and plotter' : Romeo and Juliet and civic space / Roy Eriksen -- 4. Inside-outside : love, household, and city in Romeo and Juliet / Mera J. Flaumenhaft -- 5. Defiance and denial : paradigms of civic transgression and transcendence in Romeo and Juliet / Silvia Bigliazzi -- 6. Tying the knot in "fair Verona" : the private and public spaces of marriage in Romeo and Juliet / Lisanna Calvi -- 7. Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lucia Nigri -- Part II. Civic performances and R&Jspaces. -- 8. "For these dead birds sigh a prayer" / Paul Edmondson -- 9. "Wherefore art thou Marius?" : Otway's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet / Loretta Innocenti -- 10. Brooke, Garrick, Romeo and Juliet, and the public sphere / Michael Dobson -- 11. At Juliet's tomb : Anglophone travel-writing and Shakespeare's Verona, 1814-1914 / Nicola J. Watson -- 12. Producing a (R&)Jspace : discursive and social practices in Verona / Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi -- 13. Perché sei tu? : Lindsay Kemp's "gift of memory" / Jacquelyn Bessell -- 14. Stage(d) reconciliations : Romeo and Juliet and the politics of bilingual Shakespeare productions in Germany / Bettina Boecker -- Afterword: "What's past is prologue" : civic Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet and beyond / Ewan Fernie and Paul Edmonsdon.

Call Number

JFE 16-5497

ISBN

• 9781138839984
• 1138839981
• 9781315733104 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015016544

OCLC

910621975

Title

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and civic life : the boundaries of civic space / edited by Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 14

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Added Author

Bigliazzi, Silvia, 1968- editor.

Calvi, Lisanna, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-5497