Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333485880)

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance studies interrelationships between English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance period, including texts, performance and performance spaces, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced between Italian writers including Aretino, Castiglione and Zorenzo Valla and such English playwrights as Shakespeare, Lyly and Ben Jonson. The impact of Italian popular tradition on Shakespeare's comedies is analysed, together with Jonson's theatrical recreation of Venice, and Italian sources for the court masques of Jonson, Daniel and Campion.

Author: J. R. Mulryne
ISBN-10: 0333485882
ISBN-13: 9780333485880
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/25/1991
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d