Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? The essays of this book interrogate Shakespeare’s living presence and chart the multiple facets of his vibrant and chameleonic afterlives as no single volume has done before.

Giovanni Cianci is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi in Milan. Throughout his career, he has promoted ground-breaking research on Vorticism and inter-artistic dialogues in modernist culture. He has published extensively on Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, John Ruskin, Joseph Conrad and the literary impact of Paul Cézanne in Europe. Caroline Patey is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi in Milan. After focusing on Renaissance studies, she has in recent years concentrated on late Victorian and modernist subjects with a particular attention for the visual and transnational dimensions of literature.

Contents: Giovanni Cianci: Introduction: The Agon with the Bard – Massimo Bacigalupo: Yeats and Pound: A Poetics of Excess and Pastiche – Jason Harding: T.S. Eliot’s Shakespeare: Changing our Way of Being Wrong – Carlo Pagetti: ‘Where there’s a Will, there’s a Way’: The Dialogue between Virginia Woolf and Master William – Giovanni Cianci: Modernist Interpreters of Shakespeare: Wyndham Lewis and G. Wilson Knight – Marjorie Perloff: Wittgenstein’s Shakespeare – Claudia Corti: ‘As you Disguise me’: Shakespeare and/in Pirandello – Silvia Riva: In Hamlet’s Path: Shakespearean Etchings in Laforgue and Tzara – George Oppitz-Trotman: Shakespeare’s Abandoned Cave: Bertolt Brecht and the Dialectic of ‘Greatness’ – Vincenzo Russo: Fernando Pessoa: A Peripheral Shakespearean Out of his Time – Laura Pelaschiar: Joyce’s Shakespeare – Caroline Patey: Beckett’s Shakespeare, or, Silencing the Bard. Inhaltsverzeichnis