Università Roma Tre

Shakepseare's Studies: 6 CFU (I semestre)
Shakespeare’s family plots
Drawing on King Lear and the Winter’s tale the course will explore a set of issues regarding Shakespeare’s family plots and his representation of the female figure at the specific point of passage from the tragic vision of King Lear to the conciliating vision of his late plays. What is suggested as being at the core of Shakespeare’s preoccupations in the late plays is the representation of the daughter as a figure that while being connected with an uncanny maternal body may be envisioned as a mediating agency towards the achievement of a ‘redemptive’ mimesis. Links with Renaissance visual arts will be established in order to elucidate the pervasiveness of such a theme in European imagination as well as its relation with motifs such as rebirth, resurrection, reconciliation.

Bibliografia
William Shakespeare, King Lear (Arden edition); William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (Arden edition)
Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers. Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, London and New York, Routledge, 1992 (pp.103-129; pp.194-238). Disponibile in biblioteca
Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Il bene ritrovato. Le figlie di Shakespeare dal King Lear ai romances, Roma, Bulzoni, 2005.
“Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Caritas Romana: il tragico del femminile nel King Lear” in William Shakespeare. Il Senso del Tragico, a cura di Simonetta de Filippis, Napoli, Loffredo Editore, 2013 (pp.113-136). Disponibile in biblioteca.
Maria Del Sapio Garbero, “’Be stone no more: Maternity and Heretical Visual Art in Shakespeare’s Late Plays”, in Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare [En ligne], 33 | 2015, pp. 1-13. URL : http://shakespeare.revues.org/3493.
Advised reading:
G. Melchiori, Shakespeare, Laterza, 1994