Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night: Parthenio, Commedia (1516) with an English Translation

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - Literary Criticism - 247 pages
Louise George Clubb presents here the first English translation of Pollastra's long-lost Italian Renaissance comedy Parthenio, to which Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is ultimately traced. Also included are Clubb's theater history chapters from the 1993 publication Romance and Aretine Humanism in Sienese Comedy, augmented with new findings. The supplementary scholarship provided here addresses the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy.
 

Contents

Lineage Structures Contaminatio
31
Editors Note
57
Textual References
229

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Louise George Clubb is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a member of the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Italian Studies.

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