Università Roma Tre

The module will be divided into two parts:

1) in the first part students will be provided with a broad introduction to the main historical and literary features of the English early modern period;

2) The second part will be devoted to the study of two poems by Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

The course will be delivered in English (general presentations) and Italian (close reading and translation) with a specific intermedial and comparative approach to texts.

Students who cannot regularly attend lessons are kindly requested to make an appointment with the module convenor during her office hours in order to get more detailed information about the programme. Check Prof Pennacchia official website: http://lingueletteratureculturestraniere.uniroma3.it/bacheca/mpennacchia/

Bertinetti , Paolo, Storia della letteratura inglese I. Dalle origini al Settecento, Einaudi, 2000.

Greenblatt, Stephen (ed), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 1,Norton, 2012 (selected excerpts).

Shakespeare, William, Poemetti, traduzione di Gilberto Sacerdoti, Garzanti, 2000.

Bassnett, Susan, Translation Studies, Routledge, 2002 (3rd edition) (selected chapters).

Del Sapio Maria (ed.), Shakespeare e la nuova scienza nella cultura early modern, Pacini, 2015 (selected chapters).