Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare's Rome

Maria Del Sapio Garbero is Professor of English Literature at the Università Roma Tre, Italy. She is the author of Il bene ritrovato. Le figlie di Shakespeare dal King Lear ai romances (2005) and the editor of La traduzione di Amleto nella cultura europea (2002).

• Contents: Introduction: performing 'Rome' from the periphery, Maria Del Sapio Garbero; Part I What Is It To Be a Roman?: Shakespeare's Romulus and Remus: who does the wolf love?, Janet Adelman; Acting the Roman: Coriolanus, Manfred Pfister; Antony's ring: remediating ancient rhetoric on the Elizabethan stage, Maddalena Pennacchia; Other from the body: sartorial metatheatre in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Paola Colaiacomo; 'I am more an antique Roman than a Dane': suicide, masculinity, and national identity in Hamlet, Drew Daniel; Interchapter: Fostering the question' who plays the host?', Maria Del Sapio Garbero. Part II The Theatre of the Empire: Antony and Cleopatra and the overflowing of the Roman measure, Gilberto Sacerdoti; Romans versus Barbarians: speaking the language of the empire in Titus Andronicus, Barbara Antonucci; In dialogue with the new: theorizations on the New World in Titus Andronicus, Gilberta Golinelli; Shakespeare's tales of 2 cities: London and Rome, Carlo Pagetti; Shakespeare's writing of Rome in Cymbeline, Laura Di Michele; Shakespeare's Rome in Rome's wooden 'O', Nancy Isenberg; Coda: 'They that have power': the ethics of the Roman plays, Giorgio Melchiori; Select bibliography; Index.

’This collection should prove valuable to a variety of critics, including those focusing on the traditional Roman plays, but also to those looking for connections between Shakespeare’s Rome and the worlds of the tragedies and romances.’ Sixteenth Century Journal