Shakespeare's Italy : functions of Italian locations in Renaissance drama

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Shakespeare's Italy : functions of Italian locations in Renaissance drama

edited by Michele Marrapodi ... [et al.]

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Bibliography: p. 305-315

Includes index

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Italy loomed large on the English Renaissance stage. But what did Italy signify to these playwrights and their audiences? Renaissance scholars from around the world each contribute a different perspective to this central question. This collection of essays covers the four main topics: "Images and Culture', "Themes and Tradition", "Venice", and "Language and Ideology". Among the contributors are Harry Levin, J.R. Mulryne, Georgio Melchiori, Leo Salingar, Agostino Lombardo, Avraham Oz and Manfred Pfister. By challenging traditional readings of the subject, "Shakespeare's Italy" enables the students to view the exploitation of the Italian setting as a structural constituent of Renaissance drama, the moral and political implications of its use and its meaning for a contemporary as well as an Elizabethan audience. This text is aimed at lecturers and researchers in Renaissance literature and Shakespeare studies.

目次

  • Part 1 Images and culture: Shakespeare's Italians, Harry Levin
  • Italy staged in English Renaissance drama, A.J. Hoenselaars
  • Italian vices - cross-cultural constructions of temptation and desire in English renaissance drama, Andreas Mahler
  • the fictional world of "Romeo and Juliet" - cultural connotations of an Italian setting, Angela Locatelli. Part 2 Themes and tradition: history and myth in "The Merchant of Venice", Ronnie Mulryne
  • duelling in the Italian manner - the case of Romeo and Juliet, Sergio Rossi
  • merchants and madcaps - Dekker's "Honest Whore" plays and the "Commedia dell'arte", Viviana Comensoli. Part 3 Venice spectacle - the Veneto, metatheatre, and Shakespeare, Agostino Lombardo
  • streets, squares, and courts - Venice as a stage in shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Roberta Mullini
  • the idea of Venice in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Leo Salingar
  • Dobbin on the rialto - Venice and the division of identity, Avraham Oz. Part 4 Language and ideology: "Of that fatal country" - Sicily and the rhetoric of topography in "The Winter's Tale", Michele Marrapodi
  • the rhetoric of poison in John Webster's Italianate plays, Mariangela Tempera
  • "The soil alters
  • Y'are in another country" - multiple perspectives and political resonances in "Women Beware Women", Zara Bruzzi and A.A. Bromham
  • "Under the Dent of the English Pen" - the language of Italy in English renaissance drama, A.J. Hoenselaars.

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