Massingers Italy - Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger

Massinger's Italy offers the first book-length account of the pervasive role of Italy and its culture in Massinger's corpus, discussing to which extent Massinger contributed to energizing the myth of Italy.

Sommario

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "As you walke the streetes of Florence"; 1. "New piles upon an old foundation": Italian genres in the Massingerian canon; 2. "Familiar with all garbes gracious in England, Italie, Spaine or France": Massinger and the Italian novella. 3. "A silent mourning through all Millaine": The Italianate revenge tragedy; 4. "Sir Giles, that's both a Lyon, and a Fox in his proceedings": Italian rulership on the early modern stage; 5. "A Gentleman of the best ranke in Venice": Visions of Venice; Conclusions: "Shew your self an Italian"; Bibliography; Index

Info autore

Cristina Paravano is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Milan, Italy. She authored a monograph on Renaissance multilingualism, Performing Multilingualism on the Caroline Stage in the Plays of Richard Brome (2018), and published articles in English Text Construction, Notes & Queries, Shakespeare, Borrowers and Lenders, Ben Jonson Journal and Early Theatre, as well as several chapters in edited collections.

Riassunto

Massinger’s Italy offers the first book-length account of the pervasive role of Italy and its culture in Massinger’s corpus, discussing to which extent Massinger contributed to energizing the myth of Italy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cristina Paravano
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032445755
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244575-5
• Pagine: 172
• Serie: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Italy, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800