“What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models
(2024)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2024). “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models. In S. Bigliazzi (Ed.), Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources: Memory and Reuse (181-197). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301615-12
This chapter challenges the critical consensus that Barnabe Riche’s prose tale “‘Of Apolonius and Silla”’ (1581) is the “‘most immediate source”’ for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1601) by examining in detail the play’s relationship with two Italian m... Read More about “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models.