The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance
Title | The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Salvatore Di Maria |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Italian drama |
ISBN | 9780838754900 |
This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is 'reconstructed' from the stage directions embedded in the discourse of the characters.
Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance
Title | Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Theodore Herrick |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Italian drama |
ISBN |
The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama
Title | The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Hoenselaars |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874136388 |
It is widely accepted that English Renaissance drama owes its extraordinary richness and variety to the blending of elements originating from the medieval heritage and classical and Italian dramatic traditions. This grafting of the "Italian world" onto the English Renaissance goes far beyond the conventional research of the literary sources. The articles in this collection explore English Renaissance drama through new and challenging aspects of influence and through investigations into classical and Italian theater. The volume moves from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama. The area of research ranges from New Classical Comedy to commedia erudita, from the Renaissance theory of tragedy and tragicomedy to the birth of pastoral drama and beyond.
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Title | Love and Death in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas V. Cohen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226112608 |
Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.
Eufimia
Title | Eufimia PDF eBook |
Author | Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Combines lavish stage spectacle with a plot incorporating romantic episodes based on the poems of chivalry and resembling some of the stock ingredients of the modern Western: flight, pursuit, rescue, combat and duel.
Shakespeare's Italy
Title | Shakespeare's Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Marrapodi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Cleopatra in Italian and English Renaissance Drama
Title | Cleopatra in Italian and English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Maria Montanari |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2019-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9048537231 |
This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare. It shows how each reading of the story of Cleopatra is unique to and expressive of the culture which produced it, even as writers drew from the same sources from Antiquity. For the first time texts belonging to different cultures, rigorously presented, are brought into dialogue on such questions as moral standpoint, gender and the representation of the exotic. Moreover, through the fascinating figure of Cleopatra, the reader is able to explore the development of Renaissance tragedy, in its commercial and non-commercial versions. Ultimately both questions at the heart of this study - concerning Cleopatra's identity and her translation into theatre - converge to be (dis)solved by Shakespeare.