Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Identity crises
7. Chapter 1. 1916 25
8. Chapter 2. Waiting for Caesar 51
9. Chapter 3. Fascist crises 95
10. Part 2. Power games and the crisis of history
11. Chapter 4. “A great crisis of identification and understanding of reality” 149
12. Chapter 5. Allegorising and minoritising Richard III 175
13. Part 3. Crises of representation
14. Chapter 6. Notes on Shakespeare, simulacra, and the aporias of ‘acting’ 215
15. Chapter 7. Narrating and unravelling Italian crises through Shakespeare (2000–2016) 245
16. Afterword 277
17. Index of Names 283
18. Index of Subjects 291