Shakespeare, Italy and Intertextuality

by Edited by Michele Marrapodi

• ISBN13: 9780719066665
• ISBN10: 0719066662
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-05-06
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new historicism and cultural materialism and innovative analyses of intertextuality, the volume's four thematic sections deal with "Theory and practice," "Culture and tradition," "Text and ideology," and "Stage and spectacle."

Author Biography

Michele Marrapodi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Palermo.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	x
1 Introduction: intertextualizing Shakespeare's text	1	(12)
Michele Marrapodi
Part I Theory and practice
2 Seven types of intertextuality	13	(13)
Robert S. Miola
3 English bodies in Italian habits
Keir Elam	26	(19)
4 Shakespeare and Plutarch: intertextuality in action	45	(14)
Alessandro Serpieri
5 'Voilà la belle mort': the crisis of the aristocracy in Troilus and Cressida	59	(14)
Mario Domenichelli
Part II Culture and tradition
6 Beyond the Reformation: Italian intertexts of the ransom plot in Measure for Measure	73	(18)
Michele Marrapodi
7 'The story is extant, and writ in very choice Italian': Shakespeare's dramatizations of Cinthio	91	(16)
Jason Lawrence
8 Intertextual transformations: the novella as mediator between Italian and English Renaissance drama	107	(11)
Charlotte Pressler
9 Shakespeare's Italian intertexts: The Taming of the/a Shrew	118
Fernando Cioni
Part III Text and ideology
10 'What news on the Rialto': luxury, sodomy, and miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice	131	(14)
Anthony G. Barthelemy
11 Othello italicized: xenophobia and the erosion of tragedy	145	(13)
Pamela Allen Brown
12 The politics of plot: Measure for Measure and the Italianate disguised duke play	158	(18)
Michael J. Redmond
13 'The three-fold world divided': Julius Caesar in the light of Theologia Platonica	176	(21)
Claudia Corti
Part IV Stage and spectacle
14 Cleopatra's barge and Antony's body: Italian sources and English theatre	197	(19)
J.R. Mulryne
15 Intertextuality and the chess motif: Shakespeare, Middleton, Greenaway	216	(11)
Jeffrey A. Netto
16 'Rare Italian master(s)': Roman art in Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale	227	(12)
François Laroque
17 Shakespeare in the bottega: art works, apocrypha, and the stage	239	(14)
Giorgio Melchiori
18 Afterword: Italy as intertext	253	(6)
Keir Elam
Select bibliography of recent publications	259	(10)
Index	269