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Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
Critical investigation into the rubric of ‘Shakespeare and the visual
arts’ has generally focused on the in uence exerted by the works of
Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course
of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and pro t-
ing from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeabil-
ity between cultures in the early modern period, this volume’s tripartite
structure considers instead the relationship between Renaissance mate-
rial arts, theatre, and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre,
explores the use and function of Italian visual culture in Shakespeare’s
oeuvre, and questions the appropriation of the arts in the production of
the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By studying the inter-
mediality between theatre and the visual arts, the volume extols drama as
a hybrid genre, combining the gurative power of imagery with the plas-
ticity of the acting process, and explains the three-dimensional quality
of the dramatic discourse in the verbal-visual interaction, the stagecraft
of the performance, and the natural legacy of the iconographical
topoi
of
painting’s cognitive structures. This methodological approach opens up
a new perspective in the intermedial construction of Shakespearean and
early modern drama, extending the concept of theatrical intertextuality
to the eld of pictorial arts and their social-cultural resonance. An after-
word written by an expert in the eld, a rich bibliography of primary and
secondary literature, and a detailed Index round off the volume.
Michele Marrapodi
is Full Professor of English Language and Literature,
and History of English Drama, in the Department of “Scienze Umani-
stiche” at the University of Palermo.
Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
Series editor: Michele Marrapodi
University of Palermo, Italy
This series aims to place early modern English drama within the context
of the European Renaissance and, more speci cally, within the context
of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to
the impact and in uence of both classical and contemporary culture.
Among the various forms of in uence, the series considers early modern
Italian novellas, theatre, and discourses as direct or indirect sources,
analogues and paralogues for the construction of Shakespeare’s drama,
particularly in the comedies, romances, and other Italianate plays. Crit-
ical analysis focusing on other cultural transactions, such as travel and
courtesy books, the arts, fencing, dancing, and fashion, will also be en-
compassed within the scope of the series. Special attention is paid to the
manner in which early modern English dramatists adapted Italian mate-
rials to suit their theatrical agendas, creating new forms, and stretching
the Renaissance practice of
contaminatio
to achieve, even if uncon-
sciously, a process of rewriting, remaking, and refashioning of ‘alien’
cultures. The series welcomes both single-author studies and collections
of essays and invites proposals that take into account the transition of
cultures between the two countries as a bilateral process, paying atten-
tion also to the penetration of early modern English culture into the
Italian world.
About the series editor: Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English
Language and Literature, and History of English Drama, in the Depart-
ment of “Scienze Umanistiche” at the University of Palermo.
Shakespeare and
the Visual Arts
The Italian In uence
Edited by Michele Marrapodi
First published 2017
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