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Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2010, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 Contents List of Illustrations . ................... 9 Acknowledgments . ................... 11 Maria Del Sapio Garbero Introduction: Shakespeare’s Rome and Renaissance ‘Anthropographie’ . 13 Maddalena Pennacchia A Map of the Essays . ................... 21 Part I Human Bodies Maria Del Sapio Garbero Anatomy, Knowledge, and Conspiracy : in Shakespeare’s Arena with the Words of Cassius . ................... 33 Claudia Corti The Iconic Body: Coriolanus and Renaissance Corporeality . ...... 57 Maurizio Calbi Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 States of Exception: Auto-immunity and the Body Politic in © 2010, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 Shakespeare’s Coriolanus ........................... 77 Ute Berns Performing Anatomy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar ............ 95 Mariangela Tempera Titus Andronicus: Staging the Mutilated Roman Body . ......109 6 Contents Antonella Piazza Volumnia, the Roman Patroness . ...................121 Iolanda Plescia “From me was Posthumus ript”: Cymbeline and the Extraordinary Birth 135 Barbara Antonucci Blood in Language: the Galenic Paradigm of Humours in The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus ........................149 Paola Faini Cleopatra’s Corporeal Language . ...................161 Simona Corso What Calphurnia knew. Julius Caesar and the Language of Dreams . 171 Viola Papetti Under the sign of Ovid. Motion and Instance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream .....................................191 Michele Marrapodi Mens sana in corpore sano: the Rhetoric of the Body in Shakespeare’s Roman and Late Plays . ...................197 Alessandro Serpieri Body and History in the Political Rhetoric of Julius Caesar ........219 Part II Earthly and Heavenly Bodies Manfred Pfister “Rome and her rats”: Coriolanus and the Early ModernOpen-Access-Publikation Crisis of im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 Distinction between Man, Beast and Monster . .© .2010,...... V&R unipress239 GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 John Gillies “Mighty Space”: the Ordinate and Exorbitant in two Shakespeare Plays . 259 Gilberta Golinelli Floating Borders: (Dis)-locating Otherness in the Female Body, and the Question of Miscegenation in Titus Andronicus ..............275 Contents 7 Andrea Bellelli Where do diseases come from? Reflections on Shakespeare’s “contagion of the south” . ................................287 Giovanni Antonini and Gloria Grazia Rosa Shakespeare and Mandragora . ...................295 Maddalena Pennacchia The Stones of Rome. Early Earth Sciences in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus 309 Gilberto Sacerdoti Spontaneous Generation and New Astronomy in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra . ................................327 Nancy Isenberg Dancing with the Stars in Antony and Cleopatra ..............341 Nancy Isenberg Afterword: “A Space for Farther Travel” . ......355 Notes on Contributors . ...................361 Works Cited . ................................367 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2010, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2010, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 List of Illustrations Maria Del Sapio Garbero, ‘Anatomy, Knowledge, and Conspiracy : in Shake- speare’s Arena with the Words of Cassius’ Fig. 1 Fabrizio d’Acquapendente, Anatomy Theatre, 1594 (University of Padua). Fig. 2 Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543, anatomy table (courtesy of the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome). Fig. 3 Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia (1615), 2nd ed. 1618, anatomy table (courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London). Fig. 4 Michelangelo, The Last Judgement (1541), detail (courtesy of Musei Vaticani, Rome). Fig. 5 Juan de Valverde, Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano, 1556, anatomy plate (courtesy of the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome). Fig. 6 Giovanni Lomazzo/Richard Haydocke, Trattato dell’arte della pittura, scultura, et architettura. English version, 1598 (by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington). Claudia Corti, ‘The Iconic Body: Coriolanus and RenaissanceOpen-Access-Publikation Corporeality’ im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2010, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783899717402 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783862347407 Fig. 1 Andreas Vesalius’s Portrait from the Fabrica, 1543. Fig. 2 Coriolanus (Ian McKellen) preparing to fight with Aufidius (Greg Hicks), 1.8.1. Peter Hall production at the National Theatre, London, 1984 –85. Fig. 3 Coriolanus (Ian McKellen) engages Aufidius (Greg Hicks), 1. 8.1. Peter Hall production at the National Theatre, London, 1984–85. Fig. 4 “Let me twine mine arms around that body” (4. 5.108). Peter Hall pro- duction at the National Theatre, London, 1984–85. Fig. 5 Aufidius (Trevor White) cradling Coriolanus’s (William Houston) body (5.6). Royal Shakespeare Company, 2007–08. 10 List of Illustrations (All the images in this section are reproduced courtesy of the Archivio Teatrale Dionysos, DISAS, University of Florence). Ute Berns, ‘Performing Anatomy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’ Fig. 1 Johan of Ketham, Fasciculo de Medicina, 1493 (by permission of the British Library, London). Fig. 2 Andreas Vesalius, Title Page of De humani corporis fabrica, 1543 (by permission of the British