Books in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies series

Assesses the impact of Machiavelli's "The Prince" in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, surviving in manuscript form.

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.

Setting out to offer perspectives to a traditional topic, this collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last years.

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts.

Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare''s plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic link with a distant and foreign ancestry which is both revered and ravaged in its translation into the terms of the Bard''s own cultural moment. During a time when England was engaged in constructing a rhetoric of imperial nationhood, the contributors demonstrate that Englishmen used Roman history and the classical heritage to mediate a complex range of issues, from notions of cultural identity and gender to the representation of systems of exchange with Otherness in the expanding ethnic space of the nation. This volume addresses matters of concern not only for Shakespeare scholars but also for students interested in issues connected with gender, postcolonialism and globalization. Drawing implicitly or explicitly on recent criticism (intertextual studies, postcolonial theory, Derrida''s conceptualization of hospitality, gender studies, global studies) the essayists explore how the Roman Shakespeare of an emerging early modern empire asks questions of our present as well as of our past.

Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books-including but not limited to the Prince-strongly influenced contemporary political debate. Overall.

Features essays that reconsider the pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, and traditions on early modern English drama. This volume focuses on Shakespeare but also includes contributions on Marston, Middleton, Ford, Brome, Aretino, and other early modern dramatists. It also focuses on the political implications of the dramatic text.

A sequel to Tomita's A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558-1603, this volume supplements the data for the succeeding forty years (during the reign of King James I and Charles I) and contributes to the study of Anglo-Italian relations in literature through the publication histories of Italian books printed in England.

A collection of essays that places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts.

This book investigates the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the European Renaissance, in the context of Italian cultural, dramatic and literary traditions. Contributors perceive the Italian presence in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force.

Shows how English dramatists adopted an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. This book studies the comic old man in the erudite comedy of 16th-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, and the character's subsequent flourishing on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage.

Through entries on 291 Italian books (451 editions) published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years 1558-1603, this catalogue represents a summary of research and knowledge of diffusion of Italian culture on English literature in this period.

A study that describes and chronicles the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages. It focuses on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis.

Focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. This title traces the courtesan from a stock comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, and Marston.

Situating itself in a long tradition of studies of Anglo-Italian literary relations in the Renaissance, this book consists of an analysis of the representation of women in the extant Elizabethan translations of the three major Italian Renaissance epic poems as well as of the influence of these works on Elizabethan Literature in general.

Delves into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. This book addresses matters of concern not only for Shakespeare scholars but also for students interested in issues connected with gender, post colonialism and globalization.

The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theater was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this book argues that early modern intertextuality was a dynamic process of allusion, quotation, and revision.