The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines / / Melissa Walter.
Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrativ...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship
- Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies
- Chapter Two. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice
- Chapter Three. “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine
- Chapter Four. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Chapter Five. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure
- Chapter Six. Rewriting the “Ladies’ Text”: All’s Well That Ends Well
- Chapter Seven. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Italian and French Novellas in England
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index