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The poetics of imitation in the Italian theatre of the Renaissance / Salvatore Di Maria.
LIBRA PQ4139 D54 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Di Maria, Salvatore, author.
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian drama--To 1700--History and criticism.
- Italian drama.
- Imitation in literature.
- Classical drama--Influence.
- Classical drama.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1 Imitation: The Link between Past and Present 3
- The Humanists Turn to the Ancients 6
- From the Classical Stage to the Theatre of the Renaissance 17
- The Poetics of the New Theatre 21
- 2 Machiavelli's Mandragola 26
- The Characters: Source versus Imitation 32
- The Critics 36
- New Characters 38
- Machiavellian Morality 41
- 3 Clizia: From Stage to Stage 45
- The Sons: Euthyhicus versus Cleandro 48
- The Fathers: Lysidamus versus Nicomaco 50
- The Wives: Oeostrata versus Sofronia 55
- A Machiavellian Perspective 61
- 4 Cecchi's Assiuolo: An Apian Imitation 64
- The Plot: A Contaminatio of Sources 65
- Ambrogio: An Original Amator senex 70
- Oretta's Immorality as a Reflection of the Times 79
- 5 Groto's Emilia: Fiction Meets Reality 84
- From the Sources to the Adaptation 86
- The Stage Pretence of Realism Undermined 93
- Erifila: A Venetian Courtesan 100
- 6 Gli duoi fratelli rivali: Delia Porta Adapts Bandello's Prose Narrative to the Stage 105
- The Plot 106
- The Source's King versus the Play's Viceroy 113
- Eufranone versus Lionato 115
- The Women 117
- New Characters and the Comic Element 121
- 7 Orbecche: Giraldi's Imitation of His Own Prose Narrative 128
- The Plot 129
- Orbecche and the Question of Women's Position 132
- Sulmone versus Malecche: The Debate on Kingly Prerogatives 137
- Machiavellian Princeship Anchored to Religious Morality 144
- 8 Dolce's Marianna: From History to the Stage 148
- 1 The Historical Source 149
- 2 Josephus's Herod versus Dolce's Erode 152
- 3 Mariamme versus Marianna 158
- 4 Erode and the Theatre Audience 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442647121
- 1442647124
- OCLC:
- 832256514
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