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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819599003321

Autore

Lawrence Jason <1969->

Titolo

Who the devil taught thee so much Italian? : Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England / / Jason Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2005

ISBN

1-78170-254-3

1-84779-439-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

450.710942

Soggetti

Italian language - 16th century

Italian language - England

Italian language - Study and teaching - England - History

Imitation in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.--University of Oxford, 2000) presented under the title: The siren songs of Italie : Italian literary forms in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Mie new London Companions for Italian and French': modern language learning in Elizabethan England; 2. 'A stranger borne / To be indenized with us,and made our owne': Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms; 3. 'Give me the ocular proof': Shakespeare's Italian language-learning habits; Conclusion: Seventeenth-century language learning; Appendix: John Wolfe's Italian publications; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest that there is a fundamental connection between these language-learning habits and the techniques for both reading and imitating Italian materials employed by a range of poets and dramatists, such as Daniel, Drummond, Marston and Shakespeare, in the same period. The widespread use of bilingual parallel-text instruction manuals from the



1570's onwards, most notably those of the Italian