Tragedy and Shakespeare Performance Studies in Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Giulio Cesare (1997) and Macbeth su Macbeth (2014)

The article discusses two productions, respectively of Julius Caesar and Macbeth, by the
experimental Italian theatre company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (SRS). My wider scope is a
reflection on what I may call the ‘peregrinations’ of the sense of the tragic in our times;
my more specific question is: How is the Shakespearean tragic envisioned by SRS? What
does their ‘performative thinking’ reveal about tragedy and our sense of the tragic today?
As the performances are in Italian, based on Italian translations of Shakespeare, the
question of the different language will also be briefly considered, to listen to the ‘ear of
the other’ in critical action.