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Prophecy and Conspiracy in Early Modern England Selected Papers from the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries” Graduate Conference The British Institute of Florence Florence, 22 April 2016 Edited by Giuliana Iannaccaro and Massimiliano Morini THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF SHAKESPEAREAN AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES IASEMS Advisory Board Mariacristina Cavecchi, Università degli Studi di Milano Giuliana Iannaccaro, Università degli Studi di Milano Donatella Pallotti, Università degli Studi di Firenze Alessandra Petrina, Università degli Studi di Padova Laura Tosi, Università degli Studi di Venezia “Ca’ Foscari” Prophecy and Conspiracy in Early Modern England Selected Papers from the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries” Graduate Conference Florence, 22 April 2016 Edited by Giuliana Iannaccaro and Massimiliano Morini The British Institute of Florence 2017 Prophecy and Conspiracy in Early Modern England. Selected Papers from the “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries” Graduate Conference. Florence, 22 April 2016 / edited by Giuliana Iannaccaro and Massimiliano Morini – Firenze: The British Institute of Florence, 2017. © The Contributors, 2017 ISBN (online): 978-88-907244-3-5 http://www.britishinstitute.it/it/biblioteca/biblioteca-harold-acton/events-at-the- harold-acton-library Graphic design by Massimiliano Morini and Giuliana Iannaccaro Front cover: title page of Anon., Fourteene strange Prophesies: Besides, Mother Shiptons, and Mr. Saltmarsh, predicting wonderfull events to betide these yeares of calamity, in this Climate, whereof divers are already come to passe, worthy of observation. Printed for Richard Harper, at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield, 1648. British Library Thomason Collection, Thomason / E.527[7]. Back cover: title page of Anon., A prophecie of the life, reigne, and death of VVilliam Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury: by an exposition on part of the 13. and 15. chapters of the Revelation of John. [London]: Printed for R.A., 1644. British Library Thomason Collection, Thomason / E.18[8]. We act in good faith in publishing this material here. However, should they exist, any legitimate copyright holder is invited to contact the editors. This publication has been double blind peer reviewed. This is an open access book licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. The complete legal code is available at the following web page: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode>. Published by The British Institute of Florence Lungarno Guicciardini, 9, 50125 Firenze, Italy http://www.britishinstitute.it/it/ Contents Alessandra Petrina Preface ............................................................................................................................. 11 Massimiliano Morini “Out on thee, seeming!” Fashioning Plots in Much Ado About Nothing ................................................................ 17 Melissa Pullara Oedipus in Arcadia: The Literary and Political Implications of Prophetic Inversion in Elizabethan England ............................................................... 29 Michela Compagnoni Deceitful Prophecies: Knots of Time in Shakespeare’s Macbeth ................................... 41 Martina Zamparo “Great Apollo, turn all to the best!” An Alchemical Journey Through Conspiracy, Prophecy, and Holiness in The Winter’s Tale .............................. 51 Carmen Gallo The Manipulation of Truth: Prophecies and Conspiracies in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s All is True, or Henry VIII (1613) .................................... 65 Giuliana Iannaccaro Prophecy as Conspiracy in Revolutionary England ........................................................ 75 Contributors ..................................................................................................................... 91 Index of names ................................................................................................................ 93 Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies, and all IASEMS members who generously put their expertise at the service of this volume as peer reviewers. Thanks to Alessandra for writing the preface. The editors also express their gratitude to the British Institute of Florence and its Director, Julia Race, for having hosted the conference from which this collection of essays has originated.
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