Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy (Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies)

by Michael J . Redmond (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $151.48

  The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theater was never an isolated gesture. In considering the ideological repercussions of references to Italy in prominent works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this book argues that early modern intertextuality was a dynamic process of allusion, quotation, and revision.