Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition
Edited by
MICHELE MARRAPODI University of Palermo, Italy
ASHGATE Contents
List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Shakespearean Subversions 1 Michele Marrapodi
PART I APPROPRIATIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE
1 Sprezzatura and Embarrassment in The Merchant of Venice 21 Harry Berger, Jr.
2 A Niggle of Doubt: Courtliness and Chastity in Shakespeare and Castiglione 39 John Roe
3 Dramatic Appropriations of Italian Courtliness 57 Thomas Kullmann
4 Disowning the Bond: Coriolanus's Forgetful Humanism 73 Maria Del Sapio Garbero
5 Matteo Bandello's Social Authorship and Paulina as Patroness in The Winter s Tale 93 Melissa Walter
6 Tracing a Villain: Typological Intertextuality in the Works of Painter, Webster, Cinthio, and Shakespeare 107 Karen Zyck Galbraith
PART II TRANSFORMATIONS OF TOPOI AND THEATREGRAMS
7 "Wanton pictures": The Baffling of Christopher Sly and the Visual-Verbal Intercourse of Early Modern Erotic Arts 123 Keir Elam
8 Shylock's Venice and the Grammar of the Modern City 147 Sergio Costola and Michael Saenger vi Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance
9 Helen, the Italianate Theatrical Wayfarer of All's Well That Ends Well 163 Eric Nicholson
10 "These Times of Woe": The Contraction and Dislocation of Time in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 181 Bruce W. Young
11 "Dark is Light" - From Italy to England: Challenging Tradition through Colours 199 Camilla Caporicci
12 The Italian Commedia and the Fashioning of the Shakespearean Fool 215 Iuliana Tanase
PART III OPPOSITIONS OF IDEOLOGIES AND CULTURES
13 The Aretinean Intertext and the Heterodoxy of The Taming of the Shrew 235 Michele Marrapodi
14 Shakespeare Italianate: Sceptical Crises in Three Kinds of Play 257 Lawrence F. Rhu
15 The Jew and the Justice of Venice 275 Hanna Scolnicov
16 Hamlet, Ortensio Lando, or "To Be or Not To Be" Paradoxically Explained 291 Rocco Coronato
17 Much Ado about Italians in Renaissance London 305 Duncan Salkeld
18 Shakespeare, Italian Music-Drama, and Contemporary Performance: Space, Time, and the Acoustic Worlds of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest 317 Anthony R. Guneratne
Bibliography 333 Index 359 List of Figures
7.1 Robert Smirke, Taming of the Shrew - Induction, Scene II, a Room in the Lord's House, engraved by Robert Thew for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and Folio, 1794. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. 124
7.2 Fragments of Marcantonio Raimondi's I modi. © The Trustee of the British Museum. 129
7.3 Aretino, Sonetti lussuriosi, Sonnet 11. By courtesy of the Library of the University of Bologna. 137
8.1 John Florio, Firste Fruites, 1578 (London, 1578), p. 156r~v. Reproduced by kind permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 158
15.1 Statue of Justice on the south front of the Palazzo Ducale. Shutterstock image. 278
15.2 Palazzo Ducale, west front. Shutterstock image. 279
15.3 Jacobello del Fiore, Justice flanked by archangels Michael and Gabriel, 1421. Web Gallery of Art. 282
15.4 Palazzo Ducale, west and south fronts. Shutterstock image. 283
15.5 Palazzo Ducale, Porta della Carta. Shutterstock image. 284
15.6 Filippo Calendario (?), Venecia (c. 1345), Palazzo Ducale, west front. Shutterstock image. 285
15.7 II Dottore, Anon., 18th Century. Last accessed (May 2014) at http://c0mm0ns.wikimedia.0rg/wiki/File:Arlequin_-_ Pantalone - II Dottore -commedia dell'arte.JPG. 288