Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night: Parthenio, Commedia (1516) with an English Translation

ISBN-13: 9780815391104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Louise George Clubb

Opis

Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy.

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; The Sienese origins; Romantic comedy: lineage, structures, contaminatio; Italian text and English translation of Parthenio; Textual references; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Louise George Clubb is Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at Berkeley University of California.