“It Must Even Be Dramatized”

Scrittura teatrale e forme shakespeariane in “The Moon Is Down” di John Steinbeck

Autori

  • Vincenzo Maggitti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2023.i22.1404

Parole chiave:

Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down, Shakespeare, Macbeth, play-novella, theatre studies, American Studies

Abstract

La principale intenzione di questo saggio è riportare all’attenzione critica uno dei romanzi cosiddetti ‘minori’ di John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down (La luna è tramontata, 1942) attraverso l’analisi dei rimandi e delle connessioni con i temi dell’opera shakespeariana in generale, e con il Macbeth in particolare. Nato come libro propagandistico a sostegno dell’azione dei paesi alleati degli Stati Uniti durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, il testo viene pensato da Steinbeck nella forma del play-novella, scelta che viene posta in primo piano nell’argomentazione del saggio. Sulla scorta di indizi di lettura presenti nella ricezione critica coeva al testo, l’autore propone e sviluppa la centralità del tema del sogno nell’ipotesi di The Moon Is Down come testo contro la guerra.

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2023-12-21

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Articoli (sezione generale) - lingua, letteratura e cultura Americana