Massingers Italy

Auteur

Cristina Paravano is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Milan, Italy. She authored a monograph on Renaissance multilingualism, Performing Multilingualism on the Caroline Stage in the Plays of Richard Brome (2018), and published articles in English Text Construction, Notes & Queries, Shakespeare, Borrowers and Lenders, Ben Jonson Journal and Early Theatre, as well as several chapters in edited collections.

Texte du rabat

Massinger's Italy offers the first book-length account of the pervasive role of Italy and its culture in Massinger's corpus, discussing to which extent Massinger contributed to energizing the myth of Italy.

Contenu

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "As you walke the streetes of Florence"; 1. "New piles upon an old foundation": Italian genres in the Massingerian canon; 2. "Familiar with all garbes gracious in England, Italie, Spaine or France": Massinger and the Italian novella. 3. "A silent mourning through all Millaine": The Italianate revenge tragedy; 4. "Sir Giles, that's both a Lyon, and a Fox in his proceedings": Italian rulership on the early modern stage; 5. "A Gentleman of the best ranke in Venice": Visions of Venice; Conclusions: "Shew your self an Italian"; Bibliography; Index