English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence

ISBN-13: 9780582065581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 342 str.

Robin Kirkpatrick

Opis

This text examines the influence Italian and English writers have had on each other and looks at both the similarities and the differences between the two literary traditions. The historical, social and intellectual developments between the two countries in the early Renaissance are explored.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Chaucer and the Italians; Chapter 2 Education and Politics, 1350–1550; Chapter 3 Humanism and Poetry; Chapter 4 The Renaissance Epic; Chapter 5 Comedy in the Renaissance; Chapter 6 The Novella in Italy and England; Chapter 7 Pastoral Experiment in the Plays of Guarini, Marston and Fletcher; Chapter 8 Shakespeare and Italy;

O autorze

Robin Kirkpatrick