Massinger’s Italy : Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger Hardback
by Cristina Paravano
Part of the Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies series
Hardback
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Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period. This volume explores the relationships between Massinger and Italian literary, dramatic and intellectual culture in the larger context of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges.
The book investigates the influence of Italian culture, considering Massinger’s engagement and appropriation of Italian texts, dramatic and political theories and ideas related to the country and his use of Italy as a setting.
Massinger’s Italy offers a fresh and unexpected perspective on the development of Anglo-Italian discourse on the early modern English stage, showing to what extent Massinger contributed to the myth of Italy and to the circulation of Italian culture and shedding light on the complex system of Anglo-Italian interconnections within the corpus of Massinger’s plays as well as with the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:172 pages, 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:04/08/2023
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- ISBN:9781032445748
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:172 pages, 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:04/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032445748
