Miti, prototipi, enigmi di ribelli e ribellioni, e lezioni della storia

• Main Author: Angela De Benedictis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BraDypUS 2019-12-01
• Series: Storicamente
• Online Access: http://storicamente.org/de-benedictis-masaniello-musi-rebellion-rebels-north

The article deals with two books that, nonetheless their different objects and approaches, share the evergreen issue of rebellions and rebels. The first part (“Historiographical analysis and questions to the present time”) presents the last book dedicated by Aurelio Musi (2019) to the Neapolitan famous rebel Masaniello. The starting point for the second part (“History’s lessons and policy’s theatres”) is a groundless cliché on Masaniello which can lead to a theatrical representation of Masaniello in 1649 England. The third part (“An unknown source for Shakespeare”) presents a book published in February 2018 by the computer’s expert Dennis McCarthy together with the Shakespearean scholar June Schlueter that shows an until now unnknown source for Shakespeare’s historical dramas like Coriolanus, Henry V, 2 Henry VI , and offers both the transcript and a digitalized reproduction of the source. Some among the several issues raised by that source, George North’s A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and rebels (1576), are discussed in the fourth and last part of the article (“Sources for the Shakespeare’s unknown source”).