Keywords
19th-Century Russian Literature
Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837)
Andzhelo (1833)
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265—1321)
William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Italy
Allusion
In memoriam: Larisa Georgievna Stepanova (1941—2009)
Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837)
Andzhelo (1833)
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265—1321)
William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Italy
Allusion
In memoriam: Larisa Georgievna Stepanova (1941—2009)
How to Cite
Итальянские мотивы в поэме Пушкина «Анджело» [Italian Motifs in Pushkin’s Poem _Andzhelo_]. (2021). Slavica Revalensia, 8, 289-302. https://doi.org/10.22601/SR.2021.08.10
Abstract
Pushkin’s poem Andzhelo (1833) is based on the plot of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1623). However, Pushkin changed the location from Vienna to “happy Italy,” and the article offers some explanations of the change. Besides the location and names of characters, the poem has no Italian ethnographic details but instead includes several allusions to Dante absent in Shakespeare. It seems that through them Pushkin amalgamated Dante and Shakespeare, providing an intertextual substitute for the Italian couleur locale.
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