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Staging the Soul

By Eugenio Refini

Staging the Soul

By Eugenio Refini

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As per William Shakespeare, 'all the world's a stage'. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of the soul coincided? And what if the soul was also the main character of the play? These questions are at the core of this study, which explores pedagogical uses of allegorical drama in Italy in the decades around 1600, with a focus on the place of theatre in the education of female orphans in the hospitals of Venice. The consumption of morality plays is looked at as a form of spiritual practice modeled on long-lasting theatrical metaphors. In this context, tropes such as the theatrum mundi not only regained their literal meaning by being actually staged, but also turned into rhetorical devices able to promote the inner staging of the 'world' on the 'spiritual' stage of the soul.Eugenio Refini is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2025-11-10
Publication Date:
2025-11-10
Publisher:
Legenda
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781884404
ISBN13:
9781781884409
Weight:
448 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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