Shakespeare on the nineteenth-century Italian stage

Data inizio
1 gennaio 2015
Durata (mesi) 
48
Dipartimenti
Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Responsabili (o referenti locali)
Calvi Lisanna

The project focuses on the Italian stage reception of Shakespeare in Italy in the nineteenth century. Fashionable as they might have been as opera subjects, Shakespeare’s dramas did not prove successful on the stage until the 1850s when the ‘great actors’, that is, the generation of Italian actor-managers who dominated the national stage in the second half of the nineteenth century, made of Shakespearean roles their pièces de résistance. Adelaide Ristori, Tommaso Salvini, Ernesto Rossi, and, towards the end of the century, also Giovanni Emanuel and Eleonora Duse, successfully built their careers on the Bard’s plays which were often severely cut and ‘tailored’ to the taste and skills of the actors. The research will especially concentrate on the Shakespearean productions mounted by Ernesto Rossi (1827-1896).

Importo previsto relativo alle missioni:
FUR Calvi € 2.500

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Finanziamento: assegnato e gestito dal Dipartimento

Partecipanti al progetto

Lisanna Calvi
Professore associato
Aree di ricerca coinvolte dal progetto
Letteratura inglese e letterature anglofone
Shakespeare
Pubblicazioni
Titolo Autori Anno
"Shakespeare in 19th-century Italy : Ernesto Rossi’s Romeo and Juliet." Calvi, Lisanna 2014

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