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Shakespeare, Italy, and intertextuality

"This collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses an the structural influence of Italian literature, culture, and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic cannon."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, ©2004
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780719066665, 9780719066672, 0719066662, 0719066670
56657010
Intertextualizing Shakespeare's text / Michele Marrapodi
Seven types of intertextuality / Robert S. Miola
English bodies in Italian habits / Keir Elam
Shakespeare and Plutarch : intertextuality in action / Alessandro Serpieri
"Voilà la belle mort" : the crisis of the aristocracy in Troilus and Cressida / Mario Domenichelli
Beyond the Reformation : Italian intertexts of the ransom plot in Measure for measure / Michele Marrapodi
"The story is extant, and writ in very choice Italian" : Shakespeare's dramatizations of Cinthio / Jason Lawrence
Intertextual transformations : the novella as mediator between Italian and English Renaissance drama / Charlotte Pressler
Shakespeare's Italian intertexts : The taming of the/a shrew / Fernando Cioni
"What news on the Rialto" : luxury, sodomy, and miscegenation in The merchant of Venice / Anthony G. Barthelemy
Othello italicized : xenophobia and the erosion of tragedy / Pamela Allen Brown
The politics of plot : Measure for measure and the Italianate disguised duke play / Michael J. Redmond
"The three-fold world divided" : Julius Caesar in the light of Theologia Platonica / Claudia Corti
Cleopatra's barge and Antony's body : Italian sources and English theatre / J.R. Mulryne
Intertextuality and the chess motif : Shakespeare, Middleton, Greenaway / Jeffrey A. Netto
"Rare Italian master(s)" : Roman art in Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale / François Laroque
Shakespeare in the bottega : art works, apocrypha, and the stage / Giorgio Melchiori
Italy as intertext / Keir Elam
Revised edition of: Shakespeare and intertextuality : the transition of cultures between Italy and England in the early modern period. Roma : Bulzoni, 2000