The Italian Novella and Shakespeare's Comic Heroines

by Melissa Walter

Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare's comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487503644
• ISBN13: 9781487503642
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher