What is a Text?
- The textual instability of Renaissance play texts
- Renaissance attitudes towards texts
- Manuscript and print transmission
- Acting Scripts, performing texts
- Theatres and performances in English Renaissance playhouses
- Translating Petrarch – Thomas Wyatt e Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton: similarities and differences
- The early editions
- The enigma of the dedication
- Dating
- The sequence
- Time and the monument
- The fair youth and the dark lady
- Dreams of absence
1. Romeo and Juliet: from the novella sources to Q1 and Q2
2. Ancient paradigms of tragic amorous stories: Pyramus and Thisbe
3. The Italian novellas
4. From Brooke’s verse narrative to Shakespeare’s Q1 and Q2
5. Q1 and Q2 performing texts
6. The Balcony scenes
7.The Lamentation scene
8. Revising gender
9. Violence, authority and rebellion
Publishing issues
English and Italian editions: which texts? Which translations? Which editorial practices?