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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487518424
035 _a(DE-B1597)548976
035 _a(OCoLC)1153530215
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWalter, Melissa
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines /
_cMelissa Walter.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.) :
_b5 b&w illustrations
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship --
_tChapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies --
_tChapter Two. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice --
_tChapter Three. “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine --
_tChapter Four. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor --
_tChapter Five. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure --
_tChapter Six. Rewriting the “Ladies’ Text”: All’s Well That Ends Well --
_tChapter Seven. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline --
_tConclusion --
_tAppendix. Italian and French Novellas in England --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aUsing 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 narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xItalian influences.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
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653 _aBoccaccio.
653 _aDecameron.
653 _aRenaissance novella.
653 _aShakespeare.
653 _acomedy.
653 _aconversation.
653 _adialogic.
653 _adialogue.
653 _aearly modern women.
653 _aenclosed spaces.
653 _afeminist approaches.
653 _aframing.
653 _aparatext.
653 _atheatre semiotics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518424
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487518424
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