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Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts. Contributors respond a new to the process of cultural exchange, cultural transaction, and generic intertextuality involved in the debate on dramatic theory and literary kinds in the Renaissance, exploring, with special emphasis on Shakespeare's works, the level of cultural appropriation, contamination, revision, and subversion characterizing early modern English drama. "Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories" offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further groundbreaking analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
• Author: Michele Marrapodi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 338
• EAN: 9781409421498
• ISBN: 140942149X
• ID: 04782567
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 790 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 161 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 2011

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