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Teacher
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Compagnoni Michela
(syllabus)
Literary and Intermedial Metamorphoses of the Dramatic Text
The course aims to explore the complex dynamics involved in the adaptation of literary texts across different genres (such as drama, the novel, and the short story) and media (ranging from theatrical performance to film and television adaptation). William Shakespeare’s The Tempest will serve as an exemplary case study, and we will explore the evolution of the text through its many reworkings over time. The analysis will focus on how each adaptation, in reworking the source text, brings to light new and significant aspects, closely tied to the cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts in which it is produced. Particular attention will be paid to the intermedial strategies that underpin the process of rewriting, and to how these strategies give voice to an ongoing dialogue between past and present, text and performance, tradition and innovation.
(reference books)
Students are required to read the following primary texts in English, preferably in the editions listed below:
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2011. - John Dryden e William Davenant, The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, 1670 (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A59520.0001.001/?view=toc) - Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold, Vintage Publishing, 2016. - Jeanette Winterson, “Ghost in the Machine”, in Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories, Jonathan Cape, 2023, pp. 63-83.
The following viewings are also required:
- The Tempest, film directed by Julie Taymor (2010) - Westworld, TV series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for HBO (Season 1, Episodes 1 and 10, 2016) - La tempesta, directed by Daniele Salvo, Gigi Proietti Globe Theatre Silvano Toti, 2010 (the video is available in the Gigi Proietti Globe Theatre Silvano Toti Archive at our Department)
It is strongly recommended that the reading and viewing materials be completed before or during the course.
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