Founded in 2014 as a supplement to Skenè. JTDS , Skenè. Texts and Studies is an online and print-on-demand series of volumes including a nnotated editions of drama texts and primary sources on the theory, practice, and history of theatre and drama as well as original book-length studies on the theory and practice of drama. The series also aims at furthering original research by producing texts hitherto unpublished. The series includes three sections: TEXTS and TEXTS DA, STUDIES I , and STUDIES…
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How did Shakespeare transform Italian narrative traditions into one of his most influential and controversial plays? This volume explores the two principal Italian narrative sources of The Merchant of Venice – Ser Giovanni Fiorentino’s Il Pecorone and Masuccio Salernitano’s Il Novellino – while situating them within the wider network of literary, cultural, and ideological exchanges that shaped…
The Renaissance was not simply the age of Shakespeare. It was also the age of Angelo Beolco – better known as Ruzante –whose groundbreaking theatre transformed comedy into a powerful vehicle for social critique and artistic innovation. This volume places Beolco at the centre of a new account of Renaissance culture, revealing how Italian and English drama developed through a dynamic process of…
How has Shakespeare remained one of the most influential cultural figures in the world more than four centuries after his death? This volume explores the extraordinary vitality of Shakespeare’s global afterlives through the lens of the Verona Shakespeare Fringe (VSF), an international festival founded during the Covid-19 pandemic to celebrate innovation, intercultural dialogue, and the…
Sophocles’ Antigone circulated widely in sixteenth-century Europe, as shown by its many editions, translations, and adaptations. Yet a systematic study of its reception across different national contexts has been lacking. This collection of essays addresses that gap, beginning with Thomas Watson’s Latin version, examined by Dana Ferrin Sutton and Roger S. Fisher for its juridical and political…
Beckett and Shakespeare bring poetry into play. Their dramatic works also reflect on themselves as products of the creative imagination when they use songs and poems. This lecture explores the many connections and transitions between poetry and drama in the works of both authors. Uncovering correspondences and suggestive relations between them, it offers fresh readings of their plays and poetry…
This volume reimagines Shakespeare not as an isolated genius but as a dynamic participant in a vibrant, multilingual network of European storytelling. Emerging from the PRIN project SENS ( Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination ), it challenges the traditional, linear model of source study that reduces Continental and British texts to mere stepping…
This volume reconsiders Shakespeare’s narrative sources through the lens of the Positive Humanities, proposing a renewed understanding of literary study as a practice oriented toward human flourishing. Developed within the framework of the SENS ( Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination ) project, the book brings together philosophical reflection, source…
How did Shakespeare transform a familiar tale of doomed lovers into one of the most enduring tragedies in Western literature? This study retraces the long cultural and literary journey of Romeo and Juliet , revealing the rich network of sources, narratives, and ideas that shaped the play before it reached the Elizabethan stage. Moving from broad cultural contexts to close textual analysis, the…
At once mischievous and moral, rustic and theatrical, Robin Goodfellow – the shapeshifting sprite of English folklore – stands at the crossroads of laughter, literature, and belief. This volume reintroduces The Mad Pranks and Merry Jests of Robin Goodfellow (1628–1639), the seminal chapbook that brought the household hobgoblin of oral legend into print, and explores his transformation through…
This volume explores the shifting presence of Greek antiquity on the early modern English stage, tracing how Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights grappled with Greek texts, myths, and models. Far from being a simple inheritance, 'Greekness' emerges here as a site of creative friction – at once revered and resisted, adapted and unsettled. Through the lens of imitatio and contaminatio , the…