1st Edition
Performing Witchcraft, Exorcism, and Abortion on the Italian Renaissance Stage The Witch and The Possessed Girl by Antonfrancesco Grazzini
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1. Grazzini’s Literary Background
2. Grazzini and Comic Theory
3. Grazzini and Comic Practice
4. “Boy eternal” and a Taxonomy of Children’s Games
5. Witchcraft and the Female Body
6. Comic Catharsis or Tragic Purge?
2. The Possessed Girl (La Spiritata)
3. The Witch (La Strega)
4. Appendix: Two Carnival Songs
5. Bibliography
6. Index
Biography
Mary Gallucci received a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Connecticut and holds degrees in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Albertus Magnus College. She researches race and violence in the early modern period; Italian intertexts in English drama; and eros, identity, and classical culture in Renaissance literary and visual arts. At the University of Connecticut, Gallucci has taught courses in English and World Literature, Shakespeare, and the Art of the Italian Renaissance, incorporating themes of gender and sexuality; race, heritage, and memory; and literature and the environment. She has taught Italian Language and Culture and plans additional translations from Italian.
