Shakespeare And The Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition (Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies)

This book investigates the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the European Renaissance, in the context of Italian cultural, dramatic and literary traditions. Contributors perceive the Italian presence in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.

• • Author: Professor Michele Marrapodi
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Nov 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 388 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472448391
• • ISBN-13: 9781472448392