Marrapodi Michele - Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: appropriation, transformation, opposition

SHAKESPEARE AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

ANGLO-ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES SERIES

Series Editors

General Editor: Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo, Italy
Advisory Editors: Keir Elam, University of Bologna, Italy
Robert Henke, Washington University, USA

This series aims to place early modern English drama within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of both classical and contemporary culture. Among the various forms of influence, the series considers early modern Italian novellas, theatre, and discourses as direct or indirect sources, analogues and paralogues for the construction of Shakespeares drama, particularly in the comedies, romances, and other Italianate plays. Critical analysis focusing on other cultural transactions, such as travel and courtesy books, the arts, fencing, dancing, and fashion, will also be encompassed within the scope of the series. Special attention is paid to the manner in which early modern English dramatists adapted Italian materials to suit their theatrical agendas, creating new forms, and stretching the Renaissance practice of contaminatio to achieve, even if unconsciously, a process of rewriting, remaking, and refashioning of alien cultures. The series welcomes both single-author studies and collections of essays and invites proposals that take into account the transition of cultures between the two countries as a bilateral process, paying attention also to the penetration of early modern English culture into the Italian world.

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
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Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning
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The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy
Kristin Phillips-Court

Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition

Edited by
MICHELE MARRAPODI
University of Palermo, Italy

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance : Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition / edited by Michele Marrapodi.

pages cm.(Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-4839-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616KnowledgeItaly. 2. English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 15001600History and criticism. 3. English drama17th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. English dramaItalian influences. 5. RenaissanceItaly. 6. ItalyIn literature. I. Marrapodi, Michele, editor.

PR3069.I8S498 2015

822.33dc23

2014026180

ISBN: 9781472448392 (hbk)

Michele Marrapodi

Harry Berger, Jr.

John Roe

Thomas Kullmann

Maria Del Sapio Garbero

Melissa Walter

Karen Zyck Galbraith

Keir Elam

Sergio Costola and Michael Saenger

Eric Nicholson

Bruce W. Young

Camilla Caporicci

Iuliana Tanase

Michele Marrapodi

Lawrence F. Rhu

Hanna Scolnicov

Rocco Coronato

Duncan Salkeld

Anthony R. Guneratne

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Harry Berger, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books (2000) and A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeares Venice (2012).

John Roe is a Reader in English and Related Literature, University of York. He is the author of Shakespeare and Machiavelli (2002). He has edited Shakespeare: The Poems (2006) and Inspiration and Technique: Ancient to Modern Views on Beauty and Art (with Michele Stanco, 2007). He contributed to the Great Shakespeareans series (Continuum Press).

Thomas Kullmann is Director of the Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik at the University of Osnabrueck and author of a number of articles and essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama.

Maria Del Sapio Garbero is a Full Professor of English Literature at Roma Tre University. She has written widely on Shakespeare and early modern drama. She is the author of Il bene ritrovato: le figlie di Shakespeare dal King Lear ai Romances (2005) and the editor of Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeares Rome (2009).

Melissa Walter teaches English Literature at the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. She has contributed to many journals and collections of essays on Renaissance Drama. She is currently completing a book on The Italian Novella and Shakespearean Comedy.

Karen Zyck Galbraith is an independent scholar residing in Boston, Massachusetts. She recently received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where her research focused on the early modern novella and its substantial influence on Jacobean drama.

Keir Elam is a Full Professor of English Drama at the University of Bologna and Advisory Editor of Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies (Ashgate). His books include The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama (1980) and Shakespeare University of Discourse (1984). His edited volumes include Shakespeares Today (1984) and La grande festa del linguaggio (1986). He is the editor of Twelfth Night for the Arden Shakespeare.

Sergio Costola is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Southwestern University. He has contributed to a number of journals and collections of essays on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and theatre history.

Michael Saenger is an Associate Professor of English at Southwestern University. His books include The Commodification of Textual Engagements in the English Renaissance