Outputs (24)

Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama (2022)
Thesis
Hussain, A. Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama. (Thesis). University of Salford

Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in w... Read More about Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama.

“...a great crisis of identification and understanding of reality” : Strehler’s journey through Shakespeare (2020)
Book Chapter

Shakespeare’s plays proved crucial in Strehler’s career in many respects as they provided ‘narratives’ through which he could interpret the sequence of cultural, political, and social crises that he acknowledged, experienced personally, and more or l... Read More about “...a great crisis of identification and understanding of reality” : Strehler’s journey through Shakespeare.

“I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2019)
Journal Article
Nigri, L. (2019). “I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Skenè (Verona), 5(1), https://doi.org/10.13136/sjtds.v5i1.222

In eighteenth-century Italy negative responses to Shakespeare’s plays are not to be found exclusively in matters of aesthetics, but in the country’s political and cultural subordination to France. It is not surprising, then, that a new strand in the... Read More about “I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy.

Resisting, appropriating, and becoming the signs in Romeo and Juliet (2018)
Book Chapter

Introduction to special issue on Webster (2018)
Journal Article
Bergstrom, C., & Nigri, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on Webster. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(2), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1466263

John Webster’s Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation: A collection of essays exploring the forms and functions of violence, evil, and social realities in Webster's drama.

Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi (2018)
Journal Article
Nigri, L. (2018). Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3), 176-181

Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing (c.1598) and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) are two plays in which Matteo Bandello’s portrayal of evil agents in his novellas exert a constant, even if not immediately obvious, influence. Remote from ea... Read More about Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi.

Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy (2017)
Book Chapter

Forms of hypocrisy in early modern England (2017)
Book
(2017). L. Nigri, & N. Tsentourou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in early modern England. Routledge

Bringing together current critical work on early modern subjectivity, performance, print history, and private and public identities and space, the collection provides readers with a way into the complexity of the term ‘Hypocrisy’ and into the cultura... Read More about Forms of hypocrisy in early modern England.

Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage (2017)
Book Chapter

From the Medieval period to the Restoration, the hypocrite remained a remarkably popular figure, proving its resilience as an object of fascination not only in literature but in theological, political, and social debates. In the Tudor and Stuart peri... Read More about Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage.

Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet (2015)
Book Chapter
Bigliazzi, S., & Nigri, L. (2015). Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet. In S. Bigliazzi, & L. Calvi (Eds.), Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life : the Boundaries of Civic Space (171-186). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104

Romeo and Juliet offers precisely one such highly connoted and open-ended coda. Shakespearean endings are peculiar for making statements, but also for promising statements, thus closing the text while leaving it open to further elucidation. The touri... Read More about Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet.