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Förlagets beskrivning: "Moving from an investigation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this collection explores some significant examples of the afterlife of the play, ranging from Victorian theatre to manga, to ‘glocal’ cinema and the Italian and British contemporary stage. The essays presented here and contributed by Italian and other European scholars aim at demonstrating how the play’s extraordinary ‘longevity’ can be said to be engrained in the tripartite formulation suggested by the volume’s own title. By revolving around its three elements, the contributions originally look into the notion of authority, be it linguistic, religious or economic, and interrogate the different ways and degrees of reaction against its many inadequacies. Accordingly, the adaptations and re-writings considered in this book rest on Romeo and Juliet’s pathetic turns, either by strengthening their import or by desecrating the status of Shakespeare’s drama as ‘love myth’, and also muse on its violent aspects by foregrounding their most apparent manifestations as well as their subtlest expressions, often engaging a whole society and building on the idea of intergenerational conflict and economic interest."

Introduction ; Lisanna Calvi 7 ; Contributors 23 -- 1. LANGUAGE, RELIGION, AND THE ECONOMY IN SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET “Refuse thy name”: Some Further Notes on Language, Authority, and Roses / Iolanda Plescia 29 ; Resisting, Appropriating, and Becoming the Signs in Romeo and Juliet / Lucia Nigri 37 ; “We can clear these ambiguities”. ; Escalus’s Econoliterary Authority in Romeo and Juliet / Enrico Reggiani 47 -- 2. A STORY OF WOE: PATHETIC ADJUSTMENTS IN VICTORIAN THEATRE AND JAPANESE MANGA “Wherefore art THOU Romeo?”. Henry Irving and the Dark Side of Romeo and Juliet / Maria Serena Marchesi 65 ; William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Its Manga Version / Cristina Vallaro 81 -- 3. MARGINALITY AND DESECRATION ON THE ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY STAGE Mercutio Can’t Die. Romeo and Juliet Re-created by Carmelo Bene and Armando Punzo / Nicola Pasqualicchio 103 -- 6 Authority, Resistance, and Woe Leo Muscato’s Romeo & Giulietta: “a Shakespearean massacre”. Rewriting as an Act of Challenge and Defiance / Maria Elisa Montironi 113 -- 4. THE YOUNG AND THE LESS SO: GENERATIONAL CONFLICTS ON SCREEN AND STAGE Young Violence versus Institutional Duress. Questions of Authority and Challenge in Romeo and Juliet on Screen / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède 135 ; A Story of Greater Woe. Sean O’Connor’s and Tom Morris’s Juliet and Her Romeo (2010) / Lisanna Calvi 153 -- Index of Names 171