Italian culture in the drama of Shakespeare & his contemporaries: rewriting, remaking, refashioning

Introduction: Appropriating Italy: Towards a New Approach to Renaissance Drama / Michele Marrapodi

Pt. I. Rewriting Italian Prose and Drama

1. Pastoral Jazz from the Writ to the Liberty / Louise George Clubb

2. Harlequin/Harlotry in Henry IV, Part One / Frances K. Barasch

3. Mirror of all Christian Courtiers: Castiglione's Cortegiano as a Source for Henry V / Adam Max Cohen

4. Shakespeare's Romantic Italy: Novelistic, Theatrical, and Cultural Transactions in the Comedies / Michele Marrapodi

5. Virtuosity and Mimesis in the Commedia dell'arte and Hamlet / Robert Henke

6. Gascoigne's Supposes: Englishing Italian 'Error' and Adversarial Reading Practices / Jill Phillips Ingram

Pt. II. Remaking Italian Myths and Culture

7. 'At the cubiculo': Shakespeare's Problems with Italian Language and Culture / Keir Elam

8. Between Myth and Fact: The Merchant of Venice as Docu-Drama / J. R. Mulryne

9. Harington, Troilus and Cressida, and the Poets' War / Lisa Hopkins

10. Shakespeare's Dreams, Sprites, and the Recognition Game / Nina da Vinci Nichols

11. Re-make/re-model: Marston's The Malcontent and Guarinian Tragicomedy / Jason Lawrence

Pt. III. Refashioning Ideology

12. Shakespeare and Venice / John Drakakis

13. 'As if a man were author of himself': the (Re-)Fashioning of the Oedipal Hero from Plutarch's Martius to Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Claudia Corti

14. 'The strongest oaths are straw': Ritual Inversion in Shakespeare's The Tempest / Victoria Scala Wood

15. Learning to Spy: The Tempest as Italianate Disguised-Duke Play / Michael J. Redmond

16. Courtesan Revisited: Thomas Middleton, Pietro Aretino, and Sex-phobic Criticism / Celia R. Daileader

Pt. IV. Coda

17. Music of Words. From Madrigal to Drama and Beyond: Shakespeare Foreshadowing an Operatic Technique / Giorgio Melchiori.