Shakespeare and the Italian Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition

Edited by

MICHELE MARRAPODI University of Palermo,

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 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 , 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