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During the sixteenth century collections of translations of novelle by Boccaccio, Bandello and others were very popular in England and had a great influence on native English works ranging from the plays of Shakespeare and Spenser's Faerie Queene to the first English novels. These Elizabethan translations have hitherto been unavailable to modern readers, except in fragmentary form in some editions of Shakespeares plays. This edition provides a collection of novelle by a variety of authors and translators, offering an amusing and unusual short story anthology, and a context in which to read Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 17 Jun 1996
ISBN 10: 0460875515
ISBN 13: 9780460875516
Book Overview: Collection of tales unique to Everyman. Tales influential to the works of such dramatists ad Shakespeare, Webster and Johnson. Reset with wide B format pages to give generous margins for notes. Editor presents the latest scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summaries and chronology of the author's lives and times.
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