{"product_id":"the-italian-novella-and-shakespeares-comic-heroines-9781487503642","title":"The Italian Novella and Shakespeares Comic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Walter’s book is an impressive achievement.\" -- Rhodri Lewis, Princeton University * \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This thoroughly researched book is both a critical assessment of the connection between the Italian novella and Shakespeare’s comedy and an analysis of Shakespeare’s creation of the female comic character.\" -- Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University * \u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Melissa Walter’s The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines is useful reading for scholars and students interested in the relationship between Shakespeare’s comedies and the Italian novella tradition. The book is well structured and informed.\" -- Flavia Palma, University of Verona * \u003cem\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Theoretically engaged and full of insightful readings, this book makes a vital contribution to scholarship […] in the study of Shakespeare and early modern drama in general.\" -- Pamela Allen Brown, University of Connecticut * \u003cem\u003eEarly Modern Women\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Walter deftly analyzes the divestment of women’s power that curtails women’s speech and agency, and foregrounds key moments of resistance wherein women’s voices are heard.\" -- Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University * \u003cem\u003eAnnali d’italianistica\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations           Acknowledgements            Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship    1. Filomena’s Voice and Female Character in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies  2. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice  3. The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine 4. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor  5. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure 6. Rewriting the “ladies text”: All’s Well that Ends Well 7. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline        Conclusion           Appendix           Bibliography","brand":"MY - University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138286584151,"sku":"9781487503642","price":41.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487503642.jpg?v=1751918745","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-italian-novella-and-shakespeares-comic-heroines-9781487503642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}