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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154577903321

Titolo

Italian culture in the drama of Shakespeare & his contemporaries : rewriting, remaking, refashioning / / edited by Michele Marrapodi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-92584-9

1-138-27596-4

1-315-25170-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

MarrapodiMichele

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

English drama - Italian influences

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Intertextuality

Italy In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Rewriting Italian prose and drama -- pt. II. Remaking Italian myths and culture -- pt. III. Refashioning ideology -- pt. IV. Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

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, 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. The pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, and traditions on the European Renaissance, it is argued here, offers a valuable opportunity to study the intertextual dynamics that contributed to the construction of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical canon. In the specific area of theatrical discourse, the drama of the early modern period is characterized by the systematic appropriation of a complex Italian iconology, exploited both as the origin of poetry and art and as the site of intrigue, vice, and political



corruption. Focusing on the construction and the political implications of the dramatic text, this collection analyses early modern English drama within the context of three categories of cultural and ideological appropriation: the rewriting, remaking, and refashioning of the English theatrical tradition in its iconic, thematic, historical, and literary aspects.