The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations

by Salvatore Di Maria

This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and a theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is OOreconstructedOO from the stage directions embedded in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481473
• ISBN13: 9781611481471
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages