S Bigliazzi
Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet
Bigliazzi, S; Nigri, L
Authors
Dr Lucia Nigri L.Nigri@salford.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Contributors
S Bigliazzi
Editor
L Calvi
Editor
Abstract
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 tourist built-in R&J space is thus exploded into a wider urban area more directly concerned with the cultural practices involving citizens, as part of an entertainment machine geared towards construing a sense of belonging while conveying a message of physical appropriation of a myth that transfigures the urban everyday space into a stage setting. International boundary-crossing experiences of different cultures, traditions, disciplines, and performative media and styles, from dance, to recitation and music, for once relocated Romeo and Juliet back to their overtly fictional dimension: by traversing urban, performative, textual, and multilingual territories, it offered an alternative way for doing it civilly without playing on the hyperrealism of the town-inscribed R&J space.
Citation
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
Online Publication Date | Sep 16, 2015 |
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Publication Date | Sep 22, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Nov 9, 2015 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 171-186 |
Series Title | Routledge Studies in Shakespeare |
Series Number | 14 |
Book Title | Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life : the Boundaries of Civic Space |
ISBN | 9781138839984-(hardback);-9780367871949-(paperback);-9781315733104-(ebook) |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-Romeo-and-Juliet-and-Civic-Life-The-Boundaries-of-Civic-Space/Bigliazzi-Calvi/p/book/9781138839984 |
Additional Information | Funders : Routledge |
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