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Italian culture in the drama of Shakespeare & his contemporaries : rewriting, remaking, refashioning

The essays collected here reconsider the pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature and traditions on early modern English drama. The volume focuses strongly on Shakespeare but also includes contributions on Marston, Middleton, Ford, Brome, Aretino, and other early modern dramatists
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, England, ©2007
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm.
9780754655046, 0754655040
123029653
Introduction : Appropriating Italy : towards a new approach to Renaissance drama / Michele Marrapodi
Pastoral jazz from the writ to the liberty / Louise George Clubb
Harlequin/harlotry in Henry IV, part one / Frances K. Barasch
The mirror of all Christian courtiers : Castiglione's Cortegiano as a source for Henry V / Adam Max Cohen
Shakespeare's romantic Italy : novelistic, theatrical, and cultural transactions in the comedies / Michele Marrapodi
Virtuosity and mimesis in the Commedia dell'arte and Hamlet / Robert Henke
Gascoigne's Supposes : Englishing Italian 'error' and adversarial reading practices / Jill Phillips Ingram
'At the cubiculo' : Shakespeare's problems with Italian language and culture / Keir Elam
Between myth and fact : The merchant of Venice as docu-drama / J. R. Mulryne
Harington, Troilus and Cressida, and the poets' war / Lisa Hopkins
Shakespeare's dreams, sprites, and the recognition game / Nina daVinci Nichols
Re-make/re-model : Marston's The malcontent and Guarinian tragicomedy / Jason Lawrence
Shakespeare and Venice / John Drakakis
'As if a man were author of himself' : the (re-)fashioning of the Oedipal hero from Plutarch's Martius to Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Claudia Corti
'The strongest oaths are straw' : ritual inversion in Shakespeare's The tempest / Victoria Scala Wood
Learning to spy : The tempest as Italianate disguised-duke play / Michael J. Redmond
The courtesan revisited : Thomas Middleton, Pietro Aretino, and sex-phobic criticism / Celia R. Daileader
The music of words, from madrigal to drama and beyond : Shakespeare foreshadowing an operatic technique / Giorgio Melchiori