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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Walter, Melissa Emerson, 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Sujets:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Comedies.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Sources.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Personnages > Femmes.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Comédies.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
English literature > Italian influences.
Women in literature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Influence italienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
English literature > Italian influences
Humorous plays
Women in literature
Sources
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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