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Riccardo III

Comunicare Shakespeare: gli adattamenti cinematografici del Richard III

"And wilt thou learn of me?" Spiegare Richard III al cinema

Il mito di Riccardo III

John Fante

Tra sceneggiatura e romanzo

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Welcome to the Research page of Cecilia Latella, PhD student of Comparative Literatures.

I'm currently attending the second year for the PhD in Comparative Literatures at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". My research project is about warrior women in epic and theatre, beginning with Camilla and ending (hopefully) with Éowyn. Stay tuned.

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I took my degree in Lettere Moderne (Modern Humanities) with a thesis in Comparative Literatures. The topic was "To Communicate Shakespeare: Cinematographic Adaptations of Richard III".

You can find my thesis (in Italian) on this site: http://www.tesionline.it/default/tesi.asp?idt=14097

La mia tesi di laurea, Comunicare Shakespeare: gli adattamenti cinematografici del Richard III, è consultabile sul sito: http://www.tesionline.it/default/tesi.asp?idt=14097

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After graduation, I produced two more articles about Richard III.

• This (“And wilt thou learn of me?” Spiegare Richard III al cinema) is about Looking for Richard again. (click here for Italian text)

• And this ("The Myth of Richard III") is a kind of summary of the Great Debate about the historical Richard III. (click here for Italian text)

go to my Richard III page.

John Fante

(I am the one on the right, with light blue shirt, bending over her paper)

On June 26th, 2004 I gave my first public lecture during the conference "John Fante. Le patrie immaginarie" in the Castello Aragonese di Ischia. My speech (Fra sceneggiatura e romanzo) was about John Fante as screenwriter.

•  click here for "Fra sceneggiatura e romanzo" (in Italian)

Future Project

I have some projects for other critical researches. I aim to produce readers-oriented criticism. I am a reader before than a critic, and I think that a critic should respect and analyse the public's choice. I mean that the most loved stories and characters tell us many things of the collective imagery.

• Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles // Guy de Maupassant's Histoire d'une fille de ferme: inspired one by the other?

• Hunchbacks: Richard III (in fiction), Quasimodo, Triboulet/Rigoletto, Philip Wakem...

• Why do authors elude readers' expectation? Why in Little Women/Good Wives Jo doesn't marry Laurie? Why should prince Andrej die in War and Peace?

• The death of the hero as fundamental point of culture (topic already vastly discussed).

• Love between different classes: master and maid, noblewoman and servant.

• Italian historiography and the War of the Roses.

• Male characters in women writers fiction: idealization and public imagery.

• The Tragedy of Nero (1624) and Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis.