Massinger’s Italy
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Massinger’s Italy

Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Massinger’s Italy

Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger

About this book

Massinger's Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period.

This volume explores the relationships between Massinger and Italian literary, dramatic and intellectual culture in the larger context of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges. The book investigates the influence of Italian culture, considering Massinger's engagement and appropriation of Italian texts, dramatic and political theories and ideas related to the country and his use of Italy as a setting. Massinger's Italy offers a fresh and unexpected perspective on the development of Anglo-Italian discourse on the early modern English stage, showing to what extent Massinger contributed to the myth of Italy and to the circulation of Italian culture and shedding light on the complex system of Anglo-Italian interconnections within the corpus of Massinger's plays as well as with the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032445748
eBook ISBN
9781000919837
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Italian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: “As you walke the streetes of Florence”
  11. 1 “New piles upon an old foundation”: Italian genres in the Massingerian canon
  12. 2 “Familiar with all garbes gracious in England, Italie, Spaine or France”: Massinger and the Italian novella
  13. 3 “A silent mourning through all Millaine”: The Italianate revenge tragedy
  14. 4 “Sir Giles, that’s both a Lyon, and a Fox in his proceedings”: Italian rulership on the early modern stage
  15. 5 “A Gentleman of the best ranke in Venice”: Visions of Venice
  16. 6 Conclusions: “Shew your self an Italian”
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index