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

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 Renaissanc...

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