Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Performance and Playing Places of the Italian Renaissance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Changing Scene: Plays and Playhouses in the Italian Renaissance

      • Michael Anderson

      Pages 3-20

   3. Scripted Theatre and the Commedia Dell’Arte

      • Richard Andrews

      Pages 21-54

   4. The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyon in the 1540s

      • Judith Bryce

      Pages 55-69

3. The Italian Renaissance Connection: Ben Jonson

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Ben Jonson’s Masques and Italian Culture

      • John Peacock

      Pages 73-94

   3. Jonson’s Venice

      • Brian Parker

      Pages 95-112

   4. Aretino’s Comedies and the Italian ‘Erasmian’ Connection in Shakespeare and Jonson

      • Christopher Cairns

      Pages 113-137

4. The Italian Renaissance Connection: Lyly and Shakespeare

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Parallels between Italian and English Courtly Plays in the Sixteenth Century: Carlo Turco and John Lyly

      • Noemi Messora

      Pages 141-160

   3. Courtier and Courtesy: Castiglione, Lyly and Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona

      • M. C. Bradbrook

      Pages 161-178

   4. Shakespeare’s Verismo and the Italian Popular Tradition

      • Hugh M. Richmond

      Pages 179-203

   5. Honest Iago and the Lusty Moor: the Humanistic Drama of Honestas/Voluptas in a Shakespearean Context

      • Maristella de Panizza Lorch

      Pages 204-220

   6. Elizabethan Dramatists and Italy: A Postscript

      • Leo Salingar

      Pages 221-237

5. Back Matter

   Pages 238-256

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Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance studies interrelationships between English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance period, including texts, performance and performance spaces, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced between Italian writers including Aretino, Castiglione and Zorenzo Valla and such English playwrights as Shakespeare, Lyly and Ben Jonson. The impact of Italian popular tradition on Shakespeare's comedies is analysed, together with Jonson's theatrical recreation of Venice, and Italian sources for the court masques of Jonson, Daniel and Campion.

• drama
• theatre
• William Shakespeare

• Graduate School of Renaissance Studies, University of Warwick, UK

  J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring

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