Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0754655040 ISBN 13: 9780754655046

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English Language and Literature, and History of English Drama in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Palermo, Italy.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0754655040
• ISBN 13: 9780754655046
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Marrapodi Michele