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Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night - Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation (Paperback)
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Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night - Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
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Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely
linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation
of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of
modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy. The discovery of
forgotten works by Giovanni Lappoli, known as Pollastra, led to
publication in Italy in 1993 in a limited edition of the Italian
texts with supplemental scholarship by the authors, entitled
Romance and Aretine Humanism in Sienese Comedy. One of those texts,
the comedy Parthenio, has escaped the attention of theater
bibliographers, because it was quickly sold out in its time and
only a handful of copies are known to exist today. Yet it played an
important part in the birth of Italian Renaissance drama and of
modern comedy in general, in that it was the immediate predecessor
and source of Gl'Ingannati, arguably the most famous comedy of the
Italian Renaissance and certainly the most imitated, translated,
adapted all over Europe. The best known of its progeny is
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Much has been written in Italy and
England about Gl'Ingannati and Shakespeare's debt to it, but
nothing at all about Parthenio. This volume provides the first
English translation (with the original Italian on facing pages);
and presents for an international audience the theatrical
scholarship from the 1993 book Romance and Aretine Humanism in
Sienese Comedy, augmented with new findings.
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