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

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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

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