Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II

Founded in 2014 as a supplement to Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies Skenè. Texts and Studies is an online and print-on-demand series of volumes including annotated 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 The series also aims at furthering original research by producing texts hitherto unpublished.

General Editors: Guido Avezzù, Silvia Bigliazzi

Editorial Board: Chiara Battisti, Simona Brunetti, Sidia Fiorato, Felice Gambin, Alessandro Grilli, Nicola Pasqualicchio, Susan Payne, Cristiano Ragni, Emanuel Stelzer, Gherardo Ugolini

Managing Editors: Valentina Adami, Cristiano Ragni

The series includes three sections:TEXTS, STUDIES I, and STUDIES II.

Skenè. Texts and Studies, is a CC-BY 4.0 publication (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This Licence allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this Series, providing a link to the Licence and explicitly underlining any change (mention of DOI is required).

This is a peer reviewed series. ISSN 2464-9295

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	Drama and Poetry in Beckett and Shakespeare Autore: Claudia Olk Collana: Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II (10) 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 ...

	Who Wrote Pericles? Autore: Emma Smith Collana: Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II (9) That George Wilkins was Shakespeare’s collaborator on Pericles is a conjecture turned fact in Shakespeare Studies. Although Emma Smith does not challenge that attribution, her lecture explores the wider cultural and interpretative work the standard division of labour between ...

	There is Pleasure When An Enemy Suffers: Schadenfreude in Greek Tragedy Autore: Silvia Montiglio Collana: Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II (8) Schadenfreude, a German term but largely used in English as in other languages, means “joy in other people’s misfortunes”. It is a special emotion, which provides a malicious pleasure; it is tied up with envy, though it can also help improve one’s self-esteem or ...

	Leon Modena's Kinah Shemor Autore: Micha Lazarus Collana: Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II (6) In 1584, shortly after his bar-mitzvah, the young Italian Jew Leon Modena (1571-1648) composed an eight-line poem so remarkable that it has never been rivalled in its own genre. ...

	Action, Song, and Poetry Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson Autore: Alessandro Grilli, Francesco Morosi Collana: Skene' Texts and Studies - Studies II (5) That a strong relationship must have existed between Ben Jonson’s theatre works and Aristophanes’ plays is a long-standing scholarly commonplace. The question, however, has hardly ever been approached from a truly comparative perspective, taking into account the ...