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2022 - PhD in Linguistic, Philological, and Literary Sciences - English Renaissance Literature - at at Università degli studi di Padova
2023 - Post-doc at Università della Valle d'Aosta
2024 - Post-doc at Università degli studi di Verona
Supervisors: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Silvia Bigliazzi
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Altre Modernità
Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit (Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022, 86... more Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit (Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022, 860 pp. ISBN 978-8800749770) di Beatrice Righetti
Women’s written defences of their sex developed within the literary context of the querelle des f... more Women’s written defences of their sex developed within the literary context of the querelle des femmes, a mainly male debate on female intellectual worth, which started in the Middle Ages and came to a peak during the Renaissance. This paper focuses on the discourse some women writers started to develop in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England, when the growing number of misogynist attacks led some of them to respond in kind. The first works directly engaging the topics of the querelle are usually identified in Isabella Whitney’s poem The Copy of a Letter (1567) and Jane Anger’s Jane Anger Her Protection For Women (1589). These are coupled with three later pamphlets framed in the so-called Swetnam debate, from the name of the misogynist pamphleteer to whom these three women writers replied, namely A Muzell for Melastomus (1617) by Rachel Speght, Ester Hath Hang’d Haman (1617) by Ester Sowernam and The Worming of a Mad Dogge: or, A Soppe for Cerberus, a Redargution of the Bayte...
Padova University Press, 2018
This article aims at analysing how fear is represented in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Alth... more This article aims at analysing how fear is represented in Shakespeare’s
Taming of the Shrew. Although a first interpretation of the play hints at the fact that fear should be found mainly in Kate, many critics have claimed that this emotion is embodied by other characters as well, especially by Petruchio, who mirrors male anxiety and violent behaviour during the Renaissance. Petruchio’s violence hints at a third reading, which suggests that both Kate and he may be ‘subjects’ and ‘objects’ of fear as they both cause it and feel it as ‘refractions of reality’ and onstage as characters.
Books by Beatrice Righetti
Routledge, 2024
Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate investigates the ech... more Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses—paradoxical writing and the woman’s question or querelle des femmes—in the representation of the “Shakespearean shrew” in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello.
This comparative cross‑cultural study explores the English reception of these traditions through the circulation, translation, and adaptation of Italian works such as Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Baldassare Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano, and Ercole and Torquato Tasso’s Dell’ammogliarsi. The enticing interplay of these two discourses is further complicated by their presence in the writing of early modern male and female authors. The examination of Shakespeare’s adaptation of these traditions in his “shrew” character highlights two key findings: the thematic fragmentation of the woman’s question and the evolving role of paradoxes, from figures of speech to “figures of thought”, both influenced by the gender of the speaker.
Altre Modernità
Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit (Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022, 86... more Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit (Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022, 860 pp. ISBN 978-8800749770) di Beatrice Righetti
Women’s written defences of their sex developed within the literary context of the querelle des f... more Women’s written defences of their sex developed within the literary context of the querelle des femmes, a mainly male debate on female intellectual worth, which started in the Middle Ages and came to a peak during the Renaissance. This paper focuses on the discourse some women writers started to develop in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England, when the growing number of misogynist attacks led some of them to respond in kind. The first works directly engaging the topics of the querelle are usually identified in Isabella Whitney’s poem The Copy of a Letter (1567) and Jane Anger’s Jane Anger Her Protection For Women (1589). These are coupled with three later pamphlets framed in the so-called Swetnam debate, from the name of the misogynist pamphleteer to whom these three women writers replied, namely A Muzell for Melastomus (1617) by Rachel Speght, Ester Hath Hang’d Haman (1617) by Ester Sowernam and The Worming of a Mad Dogge: or, A Soppe for Cerberus, a Redargution of the Bayte...
Padova University Press, 2018
This article aims at analysing how fear is represented in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Alth... more This article aims at analysing how fear is represented in Shakespeare’s
Taming of the Shrew. Although a first interpretation of the play hints at the fact that fear should be found mainly in Kate, many critics have claimed that this emotion is embodied by other characters as well, especially by Petruchio, who mirrors male anxiety and violent behaviour during the Renaissance. Petruchio’s violence hints at a third reading, which suggests that both Kate and he may be ‘subjects’ and ‘objects’ of fear as they both cause it and feel it as ‘refractions of reality’ and onstage as characters.
Routledge, 2024
Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate investigates the ech... more Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses—paradoxical writing and the woman’s question or querelle des femmes—in the representation of the “Shakespearean shrew” in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello.
This comparative cross‑cultural study explores the English reception of these traditions through the circulation, translation, and adaptation of Italian works such as Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Baldassare Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano, and Ercole and Torquato Tasso’s Dell’ammogliarsi. The enticing interplay of these two discourses is further complicated by their presence in the writing of early modern male and female authors. The examination of Shakespeare’s adaptation of these traditions in his “shrew” character highlights two key findings: the thematic fragmentation of the woman’s question and the evolving role of paradoxes, from figures of speech to “figures of thought”, both influenced by the gender of the speaker.