This introduction discusses how, across time, Shakespearean ‘narratives’ were forged and used in Italy at times of crisis in the course of one hundred years, from 1916 to 2016. Far from endorsing that any discourse is equivalent to any other, it discusses the ideological potential of literary and non-literary discourses alike when both are handled as social strategies. The critical assumption is the inevitable distance between event and discourse, which turns the same interpretative categories adopted in the analysis into narrative constructs. The aim is to alert the reader to the manifold processes at work in the critical process itself when it comes to reconstruct the historically situated uses of Shakespeare.

"Introduction"

Bigliazzi, Silvia
2020-01-01

Abstract

This introduction discusses how, across time, Shakespearean ‘narratives’ were forged and used in Italy at times of crisis in the course of one hundred years, from 1916 to 2016. Far from endorsing that any discourse is equivalent to any other, it discusses the ideological potential of literary and non-literary discourses alike when both are handled as social strategies. The critical assumption is the inevitable distance between event and discourse, which turns the same interpretative categories adopted in the analysis into narrative constructs. The aim is to alert the reader to the manifold processes at work in the critical process itself when it comes to reconstruct the historically situated uses of Shakespeare.
2020
9789027205612
Shakespeare and Italy, European Shakespeare, Kenneth Burke, Crisis
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