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Sceptical responses in early modern plays : from self-knowledge to self-doubt in Marston’s The Malcontent and Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy (2014)
Journal Article
Nigri, L. (2014). Sceptical responses in early modern plays : from self-knowledge to self-doubt in Marston’s The Malcontent and Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy. English Literature, 1(1), 117-130. https://doi.org/10.14277/2420-823X/6p

Defined for the first time by Sir Thomas Elyot as a «secte of Phylosophers, whiche affirmed nothynge» (1538), the term ‘scepticism’ appears in all its variants only too rarely in the drama of the period. Chadwyck Healey databases (Early English Books... Read More about Sceptical responses in early modern plays : from self-knowledge to self-doubt in Marston’s The Malcontent and Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy.

“Lost in visual pleasure” : Charles Kean’s production of The Tempest (2014)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2014). “Lost in visual pleasure” : Charles Kean’s production of The Tempest. In S. Bigliazzi, & L. Calvi (Eds.), Revisiting The Tempest: The Capacity to Signify (171-182). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333148

In critical history, Shakespeare's The Tempest has been interpreted as a reticent play, a fascinating and yet mysterious blend of magic and verisimilitude, narrative and drama, spectacle and meditation on death. The Tempest seems to raise fundamental... Read More about “Lost in visual pleasure” : Charles Kean’s production of The Tempest.

Testo, testi, e contesti: l’intertestualità in scena (2014)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2014). Testo, testi, e contesti: l’intertestualità in scena. In S. Bigliazzi, & F. Gregori (Eds.), Critica e letteratura : Studi di anglistica (83-98). Edizioni ETS

Texts, whether they be literary or non-literary, are viewed by modern theorists as lacking in any kind of independent meaning. They are what theorists now call intertextual. The act of reading, theorists claim, plunges us into a network of textual... Read More about Testo, testi, e contesti: l’intertestualità in scena.