Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi) and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe).

• Introduction: Country Dispositions.- Part I. "Race".- 1. Iago's Race, Shakespeare's Ethnicities.- Slav-ing Othello.- Shakespeare, Nation, and Race in Fascist Italy.- Part II. Politics.- Neocon and Theoprog: The New Machiavellian Moment.- Infinite Minds: Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno Revisited.- Hamlet in Venice.- Part III. Place.- The Grave and the Ghetto: Shakespearean Places as Adaptations.- Fixed Figures: the Other Moors of Venice.- The Prison-House of Italy: Caesar Must Die.