This article introduces a collection of essays which brings together the contributions of some of the scholars who took part in the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference”, a one-day conference organised by the British Institute of Florence and the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies on 10 April 2014. Under the subtitle “Forms of Nationhood”, a tribute to Richard Helgerson’s 1992 seminal study, the volume presents investigations on constructions of Englishness, Britishness and otherness in early modern plays, masques, treatises and travelogues. Essays by Luca Baratta, Gabriella Del Lungo, Alice Equestri, Caterina Guardini, Nagihan Haliloglu, Alessandra Petrina, Cristiano Ragni, Valeria Tirabasso. Edited by Luca Baratta and Alice Equestri.
Baratta, L. (2016). A prism called nation: an introduction. In L. Baratta, A. Equestri (a cura di), Forms of nationhood: selected papers from the ‘Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ Graduate Conference, Florence, 10 April 2014 (pp. 11-34). Firenze : The British Institute of Florence.
A prism called nation: an introduction
Baratta, Luca
2016-01-01
Abstract
This article introduces a collection of essays which brings together the contributions of some of the scholars who took part in the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference”, a one-day conference organised by the British Institute of Florence and the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies on 10 April 2014. Under the subtitle “Forms of Nationhood”, a tribute to Richard Helgerson’s 1992 seminal study, the volume presents investigations on constructions of Englishness, Britishness and otherness in early modern plays, masques, treatises and travelogues. Essays by Luca Baratta, Gabriella Del Lungo, Alice Equestri, Caterina Guardini, Nagihan Haliloglu, Alessandra Petrina, Cristiano Ragni, Valeria Tirabasso. Edited by Luca Baratta and Alice Equestri.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
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