Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources: Memory and Reuse

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ’resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and dialogues, the book aims at offering a wide-ranging array of topics that foregrounds a more complex dynamics of circulation and rearticulation of Italian ’resources’ than so far known.

Silvia Bigliazzi is Professor of English Literature at Verona University, where she is the Director of the Skenè Research Centre on drama and theatre studies. Her Shakespearean publications include a monographs on Hamlet (2001) and the experience of non-being (2005), as well as the co-edition of miscellanies on theatre translation (Routledge 2013), The Tempest (2014), Romeo and Juliet (2016), and Shakespeare and Crisis (2020). In 2019 she published Julius Caesar 1935: Shakespeare and Censorship in Fascist Italy (Skenè). She is the co-General editor of Skenè. JTDS, as well as of the Global Shakespeare Inverted series. She has translated into Italian Romeo and Juliet (2012) and Shakespeare’s sonnets (2023) and has received several fellowships from New York University, Cambridge, and Oxford (All Souls). She is a co-founder of the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival.