Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

ISBN-13: 9780367881818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Alexandra Coller

Opis

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were new, if dramatists’ intriguin

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Women as Protagonists in Male-Authored Drama: Comedy and Tragedy

Chapter 1: Fathers, Daughters, Crossdressing, and Names: Women, Rhetoric, and Education in Commedia Erudita

Coda to Chapter 1: Margherita Costa’s Li buffoni (1641): The First (Extant) Female-Authored Scripted Comedy

Chapter 2: Fashioning a Genealogy: The Rhetoric of Friendship and Female Virtue in Italian Renaissance Tragedy

Coda to Chapter 2: Valeria Miani’s Celinda (1611) Among Fin de Siècle Italian Tragedies

Part II. Women as Authors/ Women as Protagonists: Pastoral Tragicomedy

Chapter 3: Women Writers and the Canon: Satyr Scenes in Female-Authored Pastoral Drama

Chapter 4: Isabetta Coreglia’s Dori (1634): Writing Pastoral Drama Against the Backdrop of the Male Canon and an Incipient Female-Authored Tradition

Chapter 5: Isabetta Coreglia’s Erindo il fido (1650) and Isabella Andreini’s Mirtilla (1588): Using A Female-Authored Classic as Paradigm

Appendix: excerpts from Isabetta Coreglia’s Raccolta manuscript

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alexandra Coller is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Program at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA.