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This expansive four-volume work gives students detailed explanations of Shakespeare's plays and poems and also covers his age, life, theater, texts, and language. Numerous excerpts from primary source historical documents contextualize his works, while reviews of productions chronicle his performance history and reception. Shakespeare's works often served to convey simple truths, but they are also complex, multilayered masterpieces. Shakespeare drew on varied sources to create his plays, and while the plays are sometimes set in worlds before the Elizabethan age, they nonetheless parallel and comment on situations in his own era. Written with the needs of students in mind, this four-volume se...
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
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L’esistenza è una lotta, ed è spesso sopraffazione. Una delle sfide più grandi a cui siamo chiamati una volta venuti alla luce. Non è difficile capire che per difendersi è necessario, a volte vitale, creare una gabbia intorno alla propria persona. Viola, piccola donna dagli occhi di ghiaccio, ha ingabbiato il suo cuore dietro sbarre invisibili ma impenetrabili; Mattia è invece fisicamente confinato dietro le sbarre di un carcere. Eppure, forse quelle di Viola sono più dure da scalfire. La cortina che ha eretto fra il suo mondo, in cui solo suo figlio Thomas può entrare, e quello fuori, ha bisogno di forti motivazioni per cadere. Solo l’amore, non quello del semplice intreccio dei...
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