📙 Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare: Place, "Race," Politics by Shaul Bassi (auth.) — free pdf
Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures,with Annalisa Oboe.
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