The Italian Novella and Shakespeare's Comic Heroines /

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"Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare's comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs of enclosed spa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walter, Melissa Emerson, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Sources.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Comedies.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Personnages > Femmes.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women.
Women in literature.
Humorous plays.
English literature > Italian influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Litterature anglaise > Influence italienne.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Sources.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Enclosure, conversation, and spaces of authorship
  • 1. Filomena's voice: female character and authority in Shakespeare's early Italianate comedies
  • 2. Thinking inside and outside the box: the casket test and audience response in The Merchant of Venice
  • 3. "Are you a comedian?": the trunk in Twelfth Night as mobility machine
  • 4. Novellesque domesticity and impossible places in The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • 5. Reforming civility in Measure for Measure
  • 6. Rewriting the "Ladies' Text": All's Well That Ends Well
  • 7. Seeing as reading and retelling in Cymbeline
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Italian and French novellas in England.

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