I am an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and I sometimes help with the organization of conferences and the editing of books. My research is on intertextuality and the 'origins of Shakespeare', meaning his sources (where works written in other languages play a huge part), his relationship with his contemporaries and previous theatrical traditions (the morality plays, for instance), and also the political and historical background of his plays and poems.
In April 2018 I curated an online exhibition in collaboration with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Shakespeare and Religious War (additional explanatory notes on the Oxford CEMS website).
Publications
Books
Authored and co-authored
The Agonist, the Lover and the Poet: An Intertextual Study across Virgil, Ovid and Shakespeare (New York and London: Routledge, 2027) - see, e.g., 5.1.1, 8.1.2.3.1, 9.5.1 B and C, 10.2.2, 10.4.2 and 10.5.2 for some, perhaps unexpected, Italian content.
Agostino Lombardo and Elisabetta Tarantino, Storia del teatro inglese. L’età di Shakespeare (Rome: Carocci, 2001)
Le metamorfosi dell’amore. Lyly, Greene, Shakespeare e le origini della commedia romantica (Rome: Bulzoni, 1995)
Co-edited
Metamorphoses of a Shakespearean Source: From Gl’Ingannati to Twelfth Night and beyond, ed. by Martin McLaughlin and Elisabetta Tarantino (New York and London: Routledge; 2027)
Wilhelm König, Essays on Shakespeare and European Renaissance Culture (1874 & 1876), tr. by Ritchie Robertson, ed. and with a Preface by Elisabetta Tarantino (Abingdon: abpb, 2024)
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature, ed. by Colin Burrow, Stephen Harrison, Martin McLaughlin, Elisabetta Tarantino (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020)
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti, ed. Martin McLaughlin, Ingrid D. Rowland, Elisabetta Tarantino (Leeds: Legenda, 2015)
Nonsense and Other Senses: Regulated Absurdity in Literature, ed. Elisabetta Tarantino with Carlo Caruso (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
Il romanzo contemporaneo: voci italiane, ed. Franca Pellegrini and Elisabetta Tarantino (Leicester: Troubador, 2006 - out of print). Reissued as Il romanzo tra Novecento e Duemila: voci italiane (Abingdon: PonyBooks Academic, 2020)
Selected journal articles
Journals in which I have published include:
Shakespeare Survey 72 (2019); Modern Language Review 112.4 (October 2017); Notes and Queries 63.3 (September 2016); Autografo 51 (2014); Classical Receptions Journal 4.1 (May 2012); Chaucer Review 39.4 (2005); Bruniana & Campanelliana 10.2 (2004); Review of English Studies n.s. 48 (192) (November 1997)
Book chapters
The following books (beside four of those I have co-edited) include chapters by me:
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice, ed. by Katherine Ibbett and Kristine Steenbergh (2021); Giordano Bruno: Law, Philosophy, and Theology in the Early Modern Era, ed. by Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (2021); Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Martin McLaughlin, ed. Guido Bonsaver, Brian Richardson and Giuseppe Stellardi (2017); Filologia e storia letteraria. Studi per Roberto Tissoni, ed. C. Caruso and W. Spaggiari (2008); The Alchemy of Extremes. The Laboratory of the Eroici furori of Giordano Bruno, ed. Eugenio Canone and Ingrid Rowland (2007); Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance, ed. Hilary Gatti (2002); Presenza di T. S. Eliot, ed. Agostino Lombardo (2001); Giornale di bordo. Saggi sull’immagine poetica del mare, ed. Agostino Lombardo (1997)