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The Shakespeare guide to Italy : retracing the Bard's unknown travels / Richard Paul Roe.

Title: The Shakespeare guide to Italy : retracing the Bard's unknown travels / Richard Paul Roe.
Author: Roe, Richard Paul, 1922-2010
Publication: New York : Harper Perennial, ©2011.

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Description

xviii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

Using the text from Shakespeare's ten "Italian Plays," the author determined the exact locations of nearly every scene, recording them in a work that's a combination literary detective story and travelogue.

Subject

Genre/Form

travelers' writings.
travelog (performed works genre)
Travel writing
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Récits de voyages.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Romeo and Juliet : "devoted love in Verona" -- The two gentlemen of Verona, part 1 : "sailing to Milan" -- The two gentlemen of Verona, part 2 : "Milan : arrivals and departures" -- The taming of the shrew : "Pisa to Padua" -- The merchant of Venice, part 1 : "Venice : the city and the empire" -- The merchant of Venice, part 2 : "Venice : trouble and trial" -- Othello : "strangers and streets, swords and shoes" -- A midsummer night's dream : "midsummer in Sabbioneta" -- All's well that ends well : "France and Florence" -- Much ado about nothing : "misfortune in Messina" -- The winter's tale : "a cruel notion resolved" -- The tempest : "island of wind and fire."

ISBN

9780062074263
0062074261

LCCN

2012464085

OCLC

703206613
SCSB-12471215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library