View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Firenze University Press: E-Journals Shakespeare and Early Modern Popular Culture edited by Janet Clare and Paola Pugliatti Robert Weimann’s pioneering Shakespeare und die Tradition des Volkstheaters, trans- lated into English in , cons tituted an authoritative appeal for a reconsideration of Shakespeare’s works as deeply in uenced by the medieval conventions of the pop- J OURNAL ular theatre. Peter Burke’s Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, published in the same year and similarly recognized as a pioneering work, examined ‘the popular’ from the point of view of a social historian. But, although these two books marked a new beginning in the study of the European forms of popular culture, their respec- OF tive in uences have remained discrete: following Weimann, there has been work on E early modern English theatre as a ‘popular’ experience (where ‘popular’ is intended ARLY as ‘widely accessed and enjoyed’); while social historians responded to the theo- retical issues developed by Burke expanding his suggestions or analysing particular M contexts. e essays in this volume constitute a reconsideration of the presence of a ODERN ‘popular’ tradition in Shakespeare’s works, examining this element from a number of di erent perspectives (historical, religious, legal, sociological, etc.) belonging to the context whi produced them; but they can also be read as a contribution towards S TUDIES diminishing the distance between the historians’ readings of documents and socio- cultural contexts and the ‘close readings’ whi are the literary critic’s prerogative. is approa to the issues discussed is not simply to a nowledge the obvious fact 2-2013 that texts live ‘in history’; more signi cantly, it intends to a rm the need for a pro- ductive ex ange of values, perspectives and methods of analysis. is volume shows that su a syncretism is not only possible but also fruitful. e ‘Appendix’ presents a few writers’ and theoreticians’ general statements about the meaning of ‘popular’ followed by texts whi illustrate the cultures, beliefs and prac tices of the people in su elds as religion and spirituality, medicine, labour, resistance and revolt, vagrancy and beggary, festivities, carnival and performance. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 1, 2012 <http://www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems> Contributions [email protected] Luca Baratta, Janet .it Clare, David Cressy, Ann Kaegi, Roberta Mullini, Donatella Pallotti, Natália Pikli, Paola Pugliatti, Ciara Rawnsley, James Sharpe Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Collana, Riviste e Laboratorio Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Comparate Università degli Studi di Firenze via Santa Reparata 93-95, 50122 Firenze, Italy ULLÌ G <http://www.collana- lmod.uni .it> UCA 7-2018 L FIRENZE UNIVERSITY OVER PRESS ISSN 2279-7149 FUP C Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Collana, Riviste e Laboratorio Volume Seven Out Loud: Practices of Reading and Reciting in Early Modern Times edited by Riccardo Bruscagli and Luca Degl’Innocenti firenze university press 2018 Journal of Early Modern Studies. - n. 7, 2018 ISSN 2279-7149 ISBN 978-88-6453-680-4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-7 Direttore Responsabile: Beatrice Töttössy Registrazione al Tribunale di Firenze: N. 5818 del 21/02/2011 CC 2015 Firenze University Press La rivista è pubblicata on-line ad accesso aperto al seguente indirizzo: www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems The products of the Publishing Committee of Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Collana, Riviste e Laboratorio (<http://www.lilsi.unifi.it/vp-82-laboratorio-editoriale-open-access-ricerca- formazione-e-produzione.html>) are published with financial support from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies of the University of Florence, and in accordance with the agreement, dated February 10th 2009 (updated February 19th 2015), between the De- partment, the Open Access Publishing Workshop and Firenze University Press. 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CC 2018 Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze Firenze University Press via Cittadella, 7, 50144 Firenze, Italy www.fupress.com Printed in Italy Editors Donatella Pallotti, University of Florence Paola Pugliatti, University of Florence Journal Manager and Managing Editor Arianna Antonielli, University of Florence Advisory Board Arianna Antonielli, University of Florence Janet Clare, University of Hull Jeanne Clegg, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari Louise George Clubb, University of California, Berkeley Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, University of Florence Lucia Felici, University of Florence Tina Krontiris, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Corinne Lucas Fiorato, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University Adelisa Malena, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari Natascia Tonelli, University of Siena Editorial Board Arianna Antonielli, University of Florence Luca Baratta, University of Florence John Denton, University of Florence Alessandro Melis, University of Florence Donatella Pallotti, University of Florence Paola Pugliatti, University of Florence As ever, the endeavour of the students working in the Laboratorio editoriale Open Access, the generosity, willingness and expertise of their guide and mentor, Arianna Antonielli, have been essential to the composition and production of this issue of JEMS. 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(Coriolanus, 5.4.60-61) Donatella Pallotti and Paola Pugliatti Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 7 (2018), pp. 5-6 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-22834 Contents Editorial 7 Riccardo Bruscagli Part One Introduction Storytelling, Memory, Theatre 25 Cesare Molinari Part Two Case Studies Chivalric Poetry between Singing and Printing in Early Modern Italy 43 Luca Degl’Innocenti Voices from the New World: Giuliano Dati’s La storia della inventione delle nuove insule di Channaria indiane 63 Riccardo Bruscagli ‘Parole appiastricciate’: The Question of Recitation in the Ariosto-Tasso Polemic 99 Christopher Geekie Animated Pulpits: On Performative Preaching in Seventeenth-Century Naples 129 Teresa Megale ‘Donna il cui carme gli animi soggioga’: Eighteenth-Century Italian Women Improvisers 139 Antonella Giordano ISSN 2279-7149 (online) www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems 2018 Firenze University Press 6 contents Reading Aloud in Britain in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Theories and Beyond 157 Roberta Mullini Appendix ‘and I would like to be hearing about them night and day’ 179 Paola Pugliatti Contributors 221 Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 7 (2018), pp. 7-22 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-22835 Editorial The present issue of JEMS (Out Loud: Practices of Reading and Reciting in Early Modern Times) intends to map an insidious territory. The debate about orality is not only old, but illustrious, since it has been revolving, for a couple of centuries, around two fundamental texts of the Western canon, i.e. the Homeric poems, Iliad and Odyssey. And yet, this subject, while inevitably involving the field of ‘orality’, concentrates on a more specific instance of that domain, and, in line with the chronological span of this journal, on a specific time span known as ‘early modern’. This means that the ‘orality’ dealt with in this volume cannot be separated from the phenomenon which characterizes the beginning of the early modern era, i.e. the invention of printing – certainly, a non-Homeric phenomenon. That is why this is an insidious territory. The ‘literature read aloud’ dealt with in the present volume is assailed from every corner by concurrent and competing traditions and procedures of the fruition of literary texts: silent reading of books, which the printing industry made readily available; the subsequent, general increase of literacy, especially in Protestant countries; the explosion (or re-explosion) of the theatre as a secular, open form of entertainment. And yet, all these phenomena, which might seem to discourage and make sadly obsolete