The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance / / Salvatore Di Maria.

• VerfasserIn: Di Maria, Salvatore,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

The theatre of the Italian Renaissance was directly inspired by the classical stage of Greece and Rome, and many have argued that the former imitated the latter without developing a new theatre tradition. In this book, Salvatore DiMaria investigates aspects of innovation that made Italian Renaissance stage a modern, original theatre in its own right. He provides important evidence for creative imitation at work by comparing sources and imitations - incuding Machiavelli's Mandragola and Clizia, Cecchi's Assiuolo, Groto's Emilia, and Dolce's Marianna - and highlighting source elements that these playwrights chose to adopt, modify, or omit entirely.DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works. By proposing the theatre of the Italian Renaissance as a poetic window into the living realities of sixteenth-century Italy, he provides a fresh approach to reading the works of this period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Imitation: The Link between Past and Present -- Chapter Two. Machiavelli's Mandragola -- Chapter Three. Clizia: From Stage to Stage -- Chapter Four. Cecchi's Assiuolo: An Apian Imitation -- Chapter Five. Groto's Emilia: Fiction Meets Reality -- Chapter Six. Gli duoi fratelli rivali: Della Porta Adapts Bandello's Prose Narrative to the Stage -- Chapter Seven. Orbecche: Giraldi's Imitation of His Own Prose Narrative -- Chapter Eight. Dolce's Marianna: From History to the Stage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index