1st Edition
Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation
By Louise George Clubb
Copyright 2010
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy. The discovery of forgotten works by Giovanni Lappoli, known as Pollastra, led to publication in Italy in 1993 in a limited edition of the Italian texts... Read more
Contents: Foreword; The Sienese origins; Romantic comedy: lineage, structures, contaminatio; Italian text and English translation of Parthenio; Textual references; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Louise George Clubb is Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at Berkeley University of California.
