Dr Lucia Nigri's Outputs (12)

“...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.

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

Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

“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.

'And I must now go wander like a Cain.’ A journey across early modern (under)worlds (2014)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2014). 'And I must now go wander like a Cain.’ A journey across early modern (under)worlds. In B. Rizzardi, C. Fusini, & V. Tchernichova (Eds.), Managing Diversities in English Literature: Global and Local Imaginaries in Dialogue (99-107). Edizioni ETS

From the Peninsula westward: a journey among translations (2013)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2013). From the Peninsula westward: a journey among translations. In S. Bigliazzi, P. Kofler, & P. Ambrosi (Eds.), Theatre Translation in Performance (142-165). Routledge

‘Speaking the truth’ : on the power of words in Arden of Faversham (2012)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2012). ‘Speaking the truth’ : on the power of words in Arden of Faversham. In R. Colombo, & D. Guardamagna (Eds.), Memoria di Shakespeare (373-384). Bulzoni Editore

Il figlio ‘negato’ nel teatro elisabettiano (2010)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. (2010). Il figlio ‘negato’ nel teatro elisabettiano. In M. Alessi, I. Baccarini, & A. Cifariello (Eds.), Padri e figli (85-93). Nuova Cultura

“. . .the ultimate cry of the failure of a human and wonderful project” : Strehler’s journey through ‘The tempest’.
Book Chapter
Nigri, L. “. . .the ultimate cry of the failure of a human and wonderful project” : Strehler’s journey through ‘The tempest’. In Shakespeare and crisis. The Italian narrative. Benjamins. Manuscript submitted for publication