A Reader's Research Guide to Ariosto in Shakespeare's England

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-88226-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

This collection of essays by outstanding scholars from across the world, led by two major experts in the field, offers a wide-ranging investigation into Ludovico Ariosto’s multifarious presence in early modern English culture.

The volume reassesses the diverse forms of influence and intertextuality that have wrought on the period’s literature through direct and indirect reading, refashioning, rewriting, and adaptation of Ariosto’s works in Elizabethan England and beyond. The novelty of this volume lies in its careful attention to the impact, reception, adaptation, and appropriation of one of the landmarks of Western literature, Ludovico Ariosto and his works, on and in English literature at the time of Shakespeare.

The wide range of specialism, spanning from Shakespeare studies to Italian studies, from theatre to chivalric literature, from issues of race and gender to reception theory and cultural studies, will guarantee a high level of interdisciplinarity and make this book appealing to scholars and students alike of different fields.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marrapodi, Michele

Jossa, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ariosto in early modern England - Michele Marrapodi; I. The book’s perspective; II. Structuring the Furioso; III. Orlando Furens; IV. Cultural criticism and intertextuality; V. This volume; Part I Elizabethan culture; 1. “I think you have not red it in Ariosto”: Ariostean variations and literary experimentation in George Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers (1573) - Silvia Silvestri; 2. Supposing in translation: George Gascoigne’s Supposes and the Elizabethan naturalization of Ludovico Ariosto’s commedia erudita - Michele De Benedictis; 3. Chastity and misogyny in Ariosto and Spenser - Patricia Wareh; 4. John Harington’s translation of Orlando Furioso: penance or vengeance? - Eric Haywood; 5. ‘Of Dames, of Knights, of Mercenaries, of Loues delight’: Robert Greene’s The History of Orlando Furioso - Beatrice Righetti; 6. Variations on a theme by Ariosto: how Ariodante and Ginevra travelled to England - Selene Scarsi; Part II Shakespeare; 7. Ariosto, Shakespeare, and the comic attitude - Kent Cartwright; 8. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Shakespearean tragedy - Andrew Hiscock; 9. Love and war in Ariosto and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Canto 1 of Orlando Furioso - Marco Andreacchio; 10. Shakespeare’s impersonations: Ariosto and the game of sorti in Much Ado About Nothing - Ambra Moroncini and Brian Cummings; 11. Shakespeare, Ariosto, and the erotics of comic probability - Lorna Hutson; Part III Stuart Drama and Pre-Restoration Culture; 12. Sex workers as educators, from Ferrara to London: Ariosto’s Lena and English city comedy - Eric Nicholson; 13. “Here’s a Bradamanta”: Ariosto’s women in the Fletcher and Massinger Canon - Cristina Paravano; 14. Earthly and heavenly love: The influence of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso on Milton’s Paradise Lost - James Calum O’Neill; 15. The wanderings of Angelica: from Ariosto to his British translators - Alessandra Petrina; 16. “Inglese italianato”: the Italian origins of English epic poetics - Sarah Van der Laan; Part IV Ariosto’s Legacy: Then and Now; 17. “Against the rules of Poetrie”: Ariosto in Elizabethan criticism - Chris Stamatakis; 18. From canon to curiosity: The Ariosto–Tasso debate and its reception in seventeenth-century English literary culture - Silvia Pireddu; 19. Ariosto readers: an idea of the Italian Renaissance? - Stefano Jossa; 20. Coupling Ariosto and Shakespeare: genealogies of a critical constellation from the Renaissance to the present - Christian Rivoletti; 21. Dreaming Orlando: Borges, Ariosto, Shakespeare, Woolf - William N. West; Coda; 22. Translating Ariosto today - Albert Russell Ascoli; Index

Über Autor(innen)

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

Stefano Jossa is an honorary reseach fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Northwestern University, USA, and Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy.