Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance : Seminar on English and Italian renaissance theatre : Papers

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Changing Scene: Plays and Playhouses in the Italian Renaissance....Pages 3-20 Scripted Theatre and the Commedia Dell’Arte....Pages 21-54 The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyon in the 1540s....Pages 55-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Ben Jonson’s Masques and Italian Culture....Pages 73-94 Jonson’s Venice....Pages 95-112 Aretino’s Comedies and the Italian ‘Erasmian’ Connection in Shakespeare and Jonson....Pages 113-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Parallels between Italian and English Courtly Plays in the Sixteenth Century: Carlo Turco and John Lyly....Pages 141-160 Courtier and Courtesy: Castiglione, Lyly and Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona....Pages 161-178 Shakespeare’s Verismo and the Italian Popular Tradition....Pages 179-203 Honest Iago and the Lusty Moor: the Humanistic Drama of Honestas/Voluptas in a Shakespearean Context....Pages 204-220 Elizabethan Dramatists and Italy: A Postscript....Pages 221-237 Back Matter....Pages 238-256