Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
About the Book Series
This series places 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 Shakespeare's 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.
A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558–1603
1st Edition
Edited
By Soko Tomita
June 30, 2021
Through entries on 291 Italian books (451 editions) published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years 1558-1603, this catalogue represents a summary of current research and knowledge of diffusion of Italian culture on English literature in this period. It also provides ...
A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1603–1642
1st Edition
Edited
By Soko Tomita, Masahiko Tomita
June 30, 2021
A sequel to Tomita’s A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558-1603, this volume provides the data for the succeeding 40 years (during the reign of King James I and Charles I) and contributes to the study of Anglo-Italian relations in literature through entries on 187 ...
Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard
1st Edition
By Rocco Coronato
June 30, 2021
This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "indistinct ...
Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Italian Influence
1st Edition
By Michele Marrapodi
September 30, 2020
Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the ...
Shakespeare's Poetics: Aristotle and Anglo-Italian Renaissance Genres
1st Edition
By Sarah Dewar-Watson
September 30, 2020
The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of Shakespeare's late plays”their sources, subject matter and thematic concerns. Shakespeare's Poetics reveals the generic ...
Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night: Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation
1st Edition
By Louise George Clubb
January 14, 2020
Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy. The discovery of forgotten works by Giovanni Lappoli, ...
Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince
1st Edition
By Alessandra Petrina
December 12, 2019
Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, surviving in manuscript form. This study concentrates on two of the four extant sixteenth-century ...
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition
1st Edition
By Michele Marrapodi
December 12, 2019
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and ...
Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Laura Tosi, Shaul Bassi
December 12, 2019
Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, ...
Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy
1st Edition
By Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
January 03, 2019
Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural ...
Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Marrapodi
November 28, 2016
Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism - along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text - the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, ...
Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the Jacobean Stage
1st Edition
By Michael J. Redmond
November 28, 2016
The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Michael J. Redmond argues that early modern intertextuality was a dynamic process of ...