1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797876303321

Autore

Clubb Louise George

Titolo

Giambattista della Porta, dramatist / / Louise George Clubb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1965

©1965

ISBN

1-4008-7492-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages) : portrait

Collana

Princeton Legacy Library

Disciplina

852.4

Soggetti

Dramatists, Italian - Early modern, 1500-1700

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Delia Porta's Life -- II. Dating Delia Porta's Plays -- III. Theater Between 1550 and 1614 -- IV. Delia Porta's Verse Dramas -- V. Delia Porta's Verse Style -- VI. Learned Comedy Between 1550 and 1614 -- VII. Delia Porta's Comedy -- VIII. Delia Porta's Influence on Written Comedy -- Appendices. Bibliography. Index -- A. Dating the Plays -- B. The Question of Scenari -- C. Translations of Long Passages -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared. One of the most famous men of his time in the field of scientific investigation, Della Porta wrote plays for relaxation and, on occasion, to camouflage controversial aspects of his scientific research from the Inquisitions. Today his works in science are largely forgotten and his right to fame rests on the plays. This book brings together the available facts of Della Porta's rich and often mysterious life and closely examines his dramatic works as part of the Italian literary scene in late Renaissance. Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting



them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779658703321

Autore

Tennenhouse Leonard

Titolo

Power on Display [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

London : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-70844-X

1-299-48336-4

1-135-03270-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Shakespeare. History & politics ; ; 6

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Historiography

Great Britain History James I, 1603-1625 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; POWER ON DISPLAY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Shakespeare and the scene of reading; 1 STAGING CARNIVAL Comedy and the politics of the aristocratic body; 2 RITUALS OF STATE History and the Elizabethan strategies of power; 3 THE THEATER OF PUNISHMENT Jacobean tragedy and the polities of misogyny; 4 FAMILY RITES City comedy, romance, and the strategies of patriarchalism; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.'



Stephen Greenblatt.What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general pr