La fragilità dei Padri. Shakespeare romanzesco tra Antica Grecia e Mondo Nuovo

The main aim of this doctoral dissertation is to highlight both the connections and the persistent dialogue between the tradition of the Greek Hellenistic and Imperial romance and the Jabobean-era Shakespeare’s late romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest). By means of three-fold analysis led from a narratological, literary and anthropological perspective, the present study investigates how Shakespeare’s late plays use the Greek romance materials in order to meditate upon such issues as the crisis of the patriarchal authority, the intergenerational struggles, the post-Puritan role of women in familiar, love, and marital relationships.