Shakespeare's Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama.Marrapodi, Michele, A. J. Hoenselaars, Marcello Cappuzzo, and L. Falzon Santucci, eds. Shakespeare's Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. x + 325 pp. bibl, index. $24.95. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-7190-5220-3. This collection of essays on the dramatic use of stage topography is a paperback reprint of a volume that first appeared in 1993. Seventeen essays address the question of Italy's place in the imagination of the English Renaissance playwright. The book is divided into four parts dealing with "Images and culture," "Themes and traditions," Venice: spectacle and polis polis In ancient Greece, an independent city and its surrounding region under a unified government. A polis might originate from the natural divisions of mountains and sea and from local tribal and cult divisions. ," and "Languages and ideology." The diverse views of these essays are "rounded off" by an Afterword and a bibliography of secondary sources. Essays include: Harry Levin, "Shakespeare's Italians"; A. J. Hoenselaars, "Italy staged in English Renaissance drama"; Andreas Mahler, "Italian vices: cross-cultural constructions of temptation and desire in English Renaissance drama"; Angela Locatelli, "The fictional world of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. : cultural connections of an Italian setting"; J.R. Mulryne, "History and myth in The Merchant of Venice"; Giorgio Melchiori, "'In fair Verona': commedia erudita into romantic comedy"; Sergio Rossi, "Duelling in the Itali an manner: the case of Romeo and Juliet"; Viviana Comensoli, "Merchants and madcaps: Dekker's Honest Whore plays and the commedia dell' arte"; Agostino Lombardo, "The Veneto, metatheatre and Shakespeare"; Roberta Mullini, "Streets, squares and courts: Venice as a stage in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson"; Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Salingar, "The idea of Venice in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson"; Avraham Oz, "Dobbin on the Rialto: Venice and the division of identity"; Michele Marrapodi, "'Of that fatal country': Sicily and the rhetoric of topography in The Winters Tale"; Mariangela Tempera tempera (tĕm`pərə), painting method in which finely ground pigment is mixed with a solidifying base such as albumen, fig sap, or thin glue. , "The rhetoric of poison in John Webster's Italianate plays"; Zara Bruzzi and A.A. Bromham, "'The soil alters; Y'are in another country': multiple perspectives and political resonances in Middleton's Women Beware Women Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657. The date of authorship of the play is deeply uncertain; scholars have estimated its origin anywhere from 1612 to 1627. "; A.J. Hoenselaars, "'Under the dent of the English pen': the language of Italy in English Renaissance drama"; Manfred Pfister, "Shakespeare and Italy, or, the law of diminishing returns law of diminishing returns n. The tendency for a continuing application of effort or skill toward a particular project or goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain level of result has been achieved. Noun 1. ." |
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