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Performing witchcraft, exorcism, and abortion on the Italian Renaissance stage : The witch and The possessed girl by Antonfrancesco Grazzini / Mary Gallucci.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ4625.G6 Z66 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallucci, Mary M., author.
- Series:
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grazzini, Anton Francesco, 1505-1584--Criticism and interpretation.
- Grazzini, Anton Francesco.
- Italian drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
- Italian drama (Comedy).
- Witchcraft in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Abortion in literature.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Antonfrancesco Grazzini's plays, La Spiritata (The Possessed Girl) and La Strega (The Witch), are available in English for the first time, with notes and an "Introduction." These plays deal with witchcraft, superstition, sexuality, and abortion. The context for such themes is analyzed in the "Introduction." Grazzini enhanced literary drama with elements from popular performance. He influenced other playwrights, including in England, where The Possessed Girl was adapted as the Elizabethan comedy, The Bugbears. Writer and linguist John Florio used Grazzini's plays in his lexicon of Italian for English learners. Grazzini celebrated artistic and popular traditions of Renaissance Florence; he is significant for writing and preserving many literary genres, especially the burlesque and carnivalesque. He participated in Florentine spectacle and theater, as a writer of plays, a composer of interludes, and a chronicler of festive events. His importance to the development the Italian language is evident in his plays"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Container of: Grazzini, Anton Francesco, 1505-1584. Strega. English
- Container of: Grazzini, Anton Francesco, 1505-1584. Spiritata. English
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gallucci, Mary M. Performing witchcraft, exorcism, and abortion on the Italian Renaissance state
- ISBN:
- 9781032749082
- 1032749083
- 9781032749099
- 1032749091
- OCLC:
- 1463680419
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