Shakespeare, Italy and Intertextuality

Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English Literature in the Department of Scienze Umanistiche at the University of Palermo

• 1. Introduction: Intertextualizing Shakespeare’s text – Michelle MarrapodiPart I: Theory and practice2. Seven types of intertextuality – Robert S. Miola3. English bodies in Italian habits – Keir Alam4. Shakespeare and Plutarch: intertextuality in action – Alessandro Serpieri5. ‘Voilà la belle mort’: the crisis of the aristocracy in Troilus and Cressida – Mario DomenichelliPart II: Culture and tradition6. Beyond the Reformation: Italian intertexts of the ransom plot in Measure for Measure – Michelle Marrapodi7. ‘The story is extant and writ in very choice Italian’: Shakespeare’s dramatizations of Cinthio – Jason Lawrence8. Intertextual transformations: the novella as mediator between Italian and English Renaissance drama – Charlotte Pressler9. Shakespeare’s Italian intertexts: The Taming of the/a Shrew – Fernando CioniPart III: Text and ideology10. ‘What news on the Rialto’: luxury, sodomy, and miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice – Anthony G. Barthelmy11. Othello italicized: xenophobia and the erosion of tragedy – Pamela Allen Brown12. The politics of plot: Measure for Measure and the Italianate disguised duke play – Michael J. Redmond13. ‘The three-fold world divided’: Julius Caesar in the light of Theologia Platonica – Claudia CortiPart IV: Stage and spectacle14. Cleopatra’s barge and Antony’s body: Italian sources and English theatre – J. R. Mulryne15. Intertextuality and the chess motif: Shakespeare, Middleton, Greenaway – Jeffrey A. Netto16. ‘Rare Italian master(s)’: Roman art in Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter’s Tale – François Laroque17. Shakespeare in the bottega: art works, apocrypha, and the stage – Giorgio Melchiori18. Afterword: Italy as intertext – Keir ElamIndex

'Represents an important addition not only to earlier studies on Italian influences in earlymodern English literature and culture but also to a new, genuinely interdisciplinaryunderstanding.'Sonia Masai, Shakespeare Quarterly (2006)'An impressive collection of critical essays.... written by an international team of respected critics.' Alexander Shurbanov, English Studies (2007)'As editor, no one is more qualified than Marrapodi to resume the inquiry set forth in the previous collections.'Kyna Hamill, Theatre Journal (2007)