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Theatre, Magic and Philosophy
William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy
Häftad, 2019
883 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome
Inbunden, 2022
3173 kr
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Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in …
Shakespeare's Poetics
Aristotle and Anglo-Italian Renaissance Genres
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
The Italian Influence
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 and the Italian Renaissance
Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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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 …
Machiavelli in the British Isles
Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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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 …
Visions of Venice in Shakespeare
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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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, …
Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning
Inbunden, 2007
3643 kr
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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
Inbunden, 2009
2904 kr
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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 …
Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558–1603
Av Soko Tomita
Inbunden, 2009
3544 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare Among the Courtesans
Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650
Inbunden, 2012
2904 kr
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Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral …
Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama
Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage
Inbunden, 2009
2904 kr
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This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. Anthony Ellis provides an in-depth study of the …
Shakespeare and Venice
Inbunden, 2010
2904 kr
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Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to …
Translating Women in Early Modern England
Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso
Inbunden, 2010
2904 kr
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Situating itself in a long tradition of studies of Anglo-Italian literary relations in the Renaissance, this book consists of an analysis of the representation of women in the extant Elizabethan translations of the three major Italian Renaissance epic poems (Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando …
Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare's Rome
Inbunden, 2009
3173 kr
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Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic link with …
Machiavelli in the British Isles
Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince
Inbunden, 2009
3643 kr
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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, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard
Inbunden, 2017
2600 kr
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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 …
Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night
Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation
Inbunden, 2017
2600 kr
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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, …
Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard
Häftad, 2021
731 kr
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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 …
Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1603–1642
Av Soko Tomita, Masahiko Tomita
Häftad, 2021
816 kr
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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 …
Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558–1603
Av Soko Tomita
Häftad, 2021
883 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome
Häftad, 2023
833 kr
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Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in …
Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources
Memory and Reuse
Inbunden, 2024
2905 kr
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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, …
Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources
Memory and Reuse
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, …
Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance
Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its European Context
Inbunden, 2023
3174 kr
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Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, …
Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance
Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its European Context
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, …
Massinger’s Italy
Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Inbunden, 2023
2904 kr
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Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period.This volume explores the …
Massinger’s Italy
Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period.This volume explores the …
Medieval Teachers of Freedom
Boethius, Peter Lombard and Aquinas on Creation from Nothing
Inbunden, 2023
1002 kr
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Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about …
Medieval Teachers of Freedom
Boethius, Peter Lombard and Aquinas on Creation from Nothing
Häftad, 2024
329 kr
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Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about …
