Who the Devil Taught Thee So Much Italian? - Italian Language Learning Literary Imitation in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Jason Lawrence is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull Klappentext This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. Zusammenfassung This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages! especially Italian! in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 'Mie new London Companions for Italian and French': modern language learning in Elizabethan EnglandPetrarch and the Italian sonnet as language-learning toolsWilliam Drummond's Italian studies2. 'A stranger borne /To be indenized with us, and made our owne': Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms'Delia' and the assimilation of the Italian sonnetDaniel and Italian pastoral drama3. 'Give me the ocular proof': Shakespeare's Italian language-learning habitsShakespeare's tragicomedic dramatisations of Italian novelle Marston's 'The Malcontent' and Guarinian tragicomedy'Othello', Cinthio and 'Orlando furioso'Conclusion - Seventeenth-century language learningAppendix: John Wolfe's Italian publicationsBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Jason Lawrence, Lawrence Jason
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780719069154
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6915-4
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Italian, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean