Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories

Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English Language and Literature, and History of English Drama, in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Palermo, Italy.

Introduction Shakespeare against Genres; I: Art, Rhetoric, Style; 1: Sheakespeare and the Art of Forgetting; 2: Shakespearean Comedy: Postmodern Theory and Humanist Poetics; 3: Shakespeare: What Rhetoric Accomplishes; 4: Shakespearean Outdoings: Titus Andronicus and Italian Renaissance Tragedy; 5: Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare's Marvelous Aesthetics; II: Genres, Models, Forms; 6: Hamlet versus Commedia dell'Arte; 7: The End of Shakespeare's Machiavellian Moment: Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's Historiography, and Dramatic Form; 8: The Problem of Old Age: Anticomedy in As You Like It and Ruzante's L'Anconitana; 9: Ruzante and Shakespeare: A Comparative Case-Study; 10: The ‘Woman as Wonder' Trope: From Commedia Grave to Shakespeare's Pericles and the Last Plays; III: Spectacle, Aesthetics, Representation; 11: Shakespeare's Italian Carnival: Venice and Verona Revisited; 12: (Re)fracted Art and Ordered Nature: Italian Renaissance Aesthetics in Shakespeare's Richard II; 13: 'Tis Pity She's Italian: Performing the Courtesan on the Early Seventeenth-Century English Stage; 14: Silence, Seeing, and Performativity: Shakespeare and the Paragone; 15: Italian Spectacle and the Worlds of James VI/I; IV: Coda; 16: How Do We Know When Worlds Meet?