Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874f
J. Valls-Russell
How does one define ‘crisis’, that convenient holdall, bandied by – you name them – parents griping about their teenagers, but also politicians, journalists, economists, sociologists, art critics, psychologists, and Shakespeareans? Whether in the singular or the plural, with or without qualifiers, ‘crisis’ is a convenient tag for a wide range of individual and collective experiences. In her afterword to Shakespeare and Crisis: One Hundred Years of Italian Narratives, Silvia Bigliazzi, editor and principal contributor of this intellectually compelling volume, warns that ‘[i]deas of “permanent crisis” as a succession or concomitance of different undifferentiated destabilising factors have long prompted overuse of the word, making the pathology almost undiagnosable’ (p. 279). Also, how long does a crisis last? Does a situation that becomes endemic still qualify as a crisis, or does it become another form of normality – in a given historical, geographical and cultural context? This would suggest a degree of relativity: what may seem exceptional in one place and time may be, or become, the norm elsewhere. Certainly, the current pandemic and its consequences illustrate how a global threat is reconfigured by national, regional, social and individual factors that produce multiple intersecting responses to what one can confidently consider is a global crisis. Within Europe, Italy seems an appropriate hunting-ground to try and track down the notion of crisis within a turbulent national context that combines creative resilience with what Bigliazzi describes as a ‘diffuse longterm sense of crisis’ (p. 279). Engagement with Shakespeare provides a compelling narrative thread. Framed by an introduction and afterword, this collection of seven essays spans a century book-ended by two centennial celebrations of Shakespeare’s birth, 1916 and 2016. In her introduction, Bigliazzi sets out a transdisciplinary toolbox. She recalls the three basic models of crisis defined by Reinhart Koselleck, that may be identified individually and collectively, in a variety of combinations: permanent, or systemic crisis; iterative crisis, which can produce progress; and crisis as final decision, identifying ‘an absolute turning point’ (p. 7). All three models have become familiar over the past century in a country like Italy, inspiring intellectual and artistic responses. Bigliazzi draws attention to the disjunctive, destabilising nature of crisis:
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211044445
Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211044445e
Peter Malin
tion, Godwin presents a series of brief snippets of images that precede the prologue to deliver a Hollywood trailer-like condensation of the play’s most significant events and symbols: the first meeting of Romeo and Juliet; the balcony scene; the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt; the lovers’ consummation; the vial of poison; the catafalque. In doing so, he delivers two important messages to his audience. Firstly, he acknowledges the play’s iconography and playfully alludes to the viewer’s presumed foreknowledge of Shakespeare’s familiar narrative. Secondly, and most significantly, by pairing the image of a socially distanced group of actors with dream-like portraits of bodies and touch, the production is rooted in the context within which it was performed where a physical connection is yearned for but denied. The production serves therefore to emphasise why Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s tale of forbidden love and enforced separation, is such an apt play for a society in lockdown.
在序言之前，戈德温呈现了一系列简短的图像片段，像好莱坞预告片一样浓缩了该剧最重要的事件和象征:罗密欧与朱丽叶的第一次见面;阳台场景;墨丘修和提伯尔的死;情人的圆满;那瓶毒药;灵车。通过这样做，他向听众传递了两个重要信息。首先，他承认这部戏剧的形象，并开玩笑地暗示观众对莎士比亚熟悉的叙事的假定预见。其次，最重要的是，通过将一群远离社会的演员的形象与梦幻般的身体和触摸肖像配对，这部作品植根于它所表演的背景中，在这个背景中，人们渴望身体上的联系，但却被拒绝。因此，这部作品旨在强调，为什么莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》(Romeo and Juliet)这个讲述禁忌之爱和强制分离的故事，如此适合一个封锁的社会。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874b
S. Carter
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874a
Kath Bradley
Richard Wood is the author of Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue (2020); the chapter on William Cavendish and Elizabethan nostalgia in A Companion to the Cavendishes (2020); journal articles on Sir Philip Sidney in the Sidney Journal and Early Modern Literary Studies; essays with a focus on Sidney in two collections, Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier (2013) and Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England (2015); and further essays on Mary Sidney Herbert and Shakespeare’s narrative poems. He is an Associate Editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874d
Adèle Mignard
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874e
Jun-xia Feng
Adèle Mignard is a doctoral student under the supervision of Professor Florence March, enrolled at the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Era and the Enlightenment, a joint research centre of France’s National Centre for Research (CNRS) and University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Adèle has been awarded a fellowship funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for a doctoral research project within the framework of a collaboration agreement between the university and Montpellier’s live arts festival ‘Printemps des comédiens’.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01847678211039874
Richard R. Wood
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