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Shakespeare's Knowledge of Italy. [Antistratfordians have often fixated on the knowledge of Italy supposedly displayed in Shakespeare's plays, believing that only someone who had personally visited the country (such as the Earl of Oxford) could have written so knowledgeably.
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May 10, 2012 · William Shakespeare set a third of his plays in Italy. Take a tour of Verona, Padua and Venice -- three fair cities in which he laid his scenes. Save for an obsession with cups of tea and...
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- Othello – Venice. Set in Venice, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most powerful examinations of political ambition, treachery, revenge and jealousy. The hero of the play, Othello, is a Venetian general in the army who is destroyed by an ambitious and jealous soldier under his command, Iago, after he passes him over for a promotion.
- The Winter’s Tale – Sicily. Sicily was the setting for several of Shakespeare’s plays and the mythical Mediterranean island, full of mystery and legends, made a fantastic location for some of his most ethereal works.
- Romeo And Juliet – Verona. The most famous theatre play in the world, Romeo and Juliet, is set in the palaces and back streets of Verona. The plot of the play revolves around the tragic love story of the ill fated Romeo and Juliet who end up in a heart breaking double suicide in protest to their warring families.
- Julius Caesar – Rome. The Eternal City of Rome has seen more than its fair share of political intrigue, power plays and shifting allegiances; but none better known than the betrayal of Julius Caesar which led to his murder on the Senate floor on the 15th March, 44 BC.
Did Shakespeare visit Italy? Most scholars insist that the author, despite setting a third of his plays in the country, did not travel there. The most commonly cited proof is that he transformed the inland cities of Milan and Verona into ports.
Apr 25, 2014 · In his book of 2002, ‘Shakespeare era italiano’ (Shakespeare Was Italian), Sicilian professor Martino Iuvara suggests that Shakespeare was not born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England to a glove maker and wool merchant John Shakespeare and his wife Mary Arden.
Shakespeare uses Venice as a setting for two of his plays. In both Othello and The Merchant of Venice he’s exploring ethnic, racial and religious conflict and what better place to examine that than a small city where the pressures of those aspects of life are acute.
What did Shakespeare’s audience know about Italy? Romeo and Juliet is one of seven plays Shakespeare set in Renaissance Italy, a setting he used to present a freer society than Elizabethan England.
