Download or read book The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance written by Salvatore Di Maria and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is 'reconstructed' from the stage directions embedded in the discourse of the characters.
Download or read book Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance written by Marvin Theodore Herrick and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama written by A. J. Hoenselaars and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that English Renaissance drama owes its extraordinary richness and variety to the blending of elements originating from the medieval heritage and classical and Italian dramatic traditions. This grafting of the "Italian world" onto the English Renaissance goes far beyond the conventional research of the literary sources. The articles in this collection explore English Renaissance drama through new and challenging aspects of influence and through investigations into classical and Italian theater. The volume moves from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama. The area of research ranges from New Classical Comedy to commedia erudita, from the Renaissance theory of tragedy and tragicomedy to the birth of pastoral drama and beyond.
Download or read book Love and Death in Renaissance Italy written by Thomas V. Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.
Download or read book Eufimia written by Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines lavish stage spectacle with a plot incorporating romantic episodes based on the poems of chivalry and resembling some of the stock ingredients of the modern Western: flight, pursuit, rescue, combat and duel.
Download or read book Cleopatra in Italian and English Renaissance Drama written by Anna Maria Montanari and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare. It shows how each reading of the story of Cleopatra is unique to and expressive of the culture which produced it, even as writers drew from the same sources from Antiquity. For the first time texts belonging to different cultures, rigorously presented, are brought into dialogue on such questions as moral standpoint, gender and the representation of the exotic. Moreover, through the fascinating figure of Cleopatra, the reader is able to explore the development of Renaissance tragedy, in its commercial and non-commercial versions. Ultimately both questions at the heart of this study - concerning Cleopatra's identity and her translation into theatre - converge to be (dis)solved by Shakespeare.
Download or read book The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background written by Denys Hay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-01-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Italy written by Michele Marrapodi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Mass Murder written by Stephen D. Bowd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence - histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects - which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldiers, lawyers, and writers justified and explained such events, and how they were represented in contemporary culture. On this basis, Renaissance Mass Murder reconstructs the terrifying individual experiences of civilians in the face of war and in doing so offers a story of human tragedy which redresses the balance of the history of the Italian Wars, and of Renaissance warfare, in favour of the civilian and away from the din of battle. This volume also places mass murder in a broader historical context and challenges claims that such violence was unusual or in decline in early modern Europe. Finally, it shows that women often suffered disproportionately from this violence and that immunity for them, as for their children, was often partially developed or poorly respected.
Download or read book The Italian Renaissance written by John Harold Plumb and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the centers of culture and commerce in Italy, the role of women, and the lives of the era's most important people.
Download or read book Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society written by Letizia Panizza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or original material. The subjects include: women and the court ( Dilwyn Knox, Evelyn S Welch, Francine Daenens and Diego Zancani ); women and the church ( Gabriella Zarri, Victoria Primhak, Kate Lowe, Francesca Medioli and Ruth Chavasse ); legal constraints and ethical precepts ( Marina Graziosi, Christine Meek, Brian Richardson, Jane Bridgeman and Daniela De Bellis ); female models of comportment ( Marta Ajmarm Paola Tinagli and Sara F Matthews Grieco ); women and the stage ( Richard Andrews, Maggie Guensbergberg, Rosemary E Bancroft-Marcus ); women and letters ( Diana Robin, Virginia Cox, Pamela J Benson, Judy Rawson, Conor Fahy, Giovanni Aquilecchia, Adriana Chemello, Giovanna Rabitti and Nadia Cannata Salamone )."
Download or read book Renaissance in Italy written by John Addington Symonds and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI. THE DRAMA. First attempts at Secular Drama?The Orfeo and Timone?General Character of Italian Plays?Court Pageants and Comedies borrowed from the Latin?Conditions under which a National Drama is formed ?Their absence in Italy?Lack of Tragic Genius?Eminently Tragic Material in Italian History?The Use made of this by English Playwrights?The Ballad and the Drama?The Humanistic Bias in Italy ?Parallels between Greek and Italian Life?II Lasca's Critique of the Latinising Playwrights?The fSofottisba of Trissino?Rucellai's Ros- munda?Sperone's Canace?Giraldi's Orbecche?Dolce's Marianna? Transcripts from the Greek Tragedians and Seneca?General Character of Italian Tragedies?Sources of their Failure?Influence of Plautus and Terence over Comedy?Latin Comedies acted at Florence, Rome, Ferrara?Translations of Latin Comedies?Manner of Representation at Court?Want of Permanent Theatres?Bibbiena's Calan- dra?LeoX. and Comedy at Rome?Ariosto's Treatment of his Latin Models?The Cassaria, Suppositi, Lena, Negromanfe, Scolastica? Qualities of Ariosto's Comedies?Machiavelli's Plays?The Commedia in Prosa?Fra Alberigo and Margherita?The Clizia?Its Humour? The Mandragola?Its sinister Philosophy?Conditions under which it was Composed?Aretino disengages Comedy from Latin Rules? His Point of View?The Cortegiana, Marescalco, Talanta?Italy had innumerable Comedies, but no great Comic Art?General Character of the Commedia Erudita?Its fixed Personages?Gelli, Firenzuola, Cecchi, Ambra, II Lasca?The Farsa?Conclusion on the Moral Aspects of Italian Comedy. Contemporaneously with the Romantic Epic, the Drama began to be a work of studied art in Italy. Boiardo by his Timone and Poliziano by his Orfco gave the earliest specimens at Ferrara and Mantua of secular plays written in the vulgar tongue....
Download or read book Trissino s Sophonisba and Aretino s Horatia written by Giovanni Giorgio Trissino and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance in Italy Italian literature pt 1 2 written by John Addington Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance in Italy Italian Literature written by John Addington Symonds and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ThisÊwork on the Renaissance in Italy, of which I now give the last two volumes to the public, was designed and executed on the plan of an essay or analytical inquiry, rather than on that which is appropriate to a continuous history. Each of its four partsÑtheÊAge of the Despots, theRevival of Learning, theÊFine Arts, andÊItalian LiteratureÑstood in my mind for a section; each chapter for a paragraph; each paragraph for a sentence. At the same time, it was intended to make the first three parts subsidiary and introductory to the fourth, for which accordingly a wider space and a more minute method of treatment were reserved. The first volume was meant to explain the social and political conditions of Italy; the second to relate the exploration of the classical past which those conditions necessitated, and which determined the intellectual activity of the Italians; the third to exhibit the bias of this people toward figurative art, and briefly to touch upon its various manifestations; in order that, finally, a correct point of view might be obtained for judging of their national literature in its strength and limitations. Literature must always prove the surest guide to the investigator of a people's character at some decisiveÊepoch. To literature, therefore, I felt that the plan of my book allowed me to devote two volumes. The subject of my inquiry rendered the method I have described, not only natural but necessary. Yet there are special disadvantages, to which progressive history is not liable, in publishing a book of this sort by installments. Readers of the earlier parts cannot form a just conception of the scope and object of the whole. They cannot perceive the relation of its several sections to each other, or give the author credit for his exercise of judgment in the marshaling and development of topics. They criticise each portion independently, and desire a comprehensiveness in parts which would have been injurious to the total scheme. Furthermore, this kind of book sorely needs an Index, and its plan renders a general Index, such as will be found at the end of the last volume, more valuable than one made separately for each part. Ê
Download or read book The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burckhardt's 1860 magnum opus on the development of the Italian Renaissance, here reissued in the two-volume English translation of 1878.
Download or read book A History of Italian Theatre written by Joseph Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.
