Giambattista Della Porta, Dramatist / / Louise George Clubb.

Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared. One of the most famous men of his time in the field of scientific...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1965
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2188
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Delia Porta's Life
  • II. Dating Delia Porta's Plays
  • III. Theater Between 1550 and 1614
  • IV. Delia Porta's Verse Dramas
  • V. Delia Porta's Verse Style
  • VI. Learned Comedy Between 1550 and 1614
  • VII. Delia Porta's Comedy
  • VIII. Delia Porta's Influence on Written Comedy
  • Appendices. Bibliography. Index
  • A. Dating the Plays
  • B. The Question of Scenari
  • C. Translations of Long Passages
  • Bibliography
  • Index