Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘Mie new London Companions for Italian and French’: modern language learning in Elizabethan England
Petrarch and the Italian sonnet as language-learning tools
William Drummond’s Italian studies
2. ‘A stranger borne /To be indenized with us, and made our owne’: Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms
'Delia' and the assimilation of the Italian sonnet
Daniel and Italian pastoral drama
3. ‘Give me the ocular proof’: Shakespeare’s Italian language-learning habits
Shakespeare’s tragicomedic dramatisations of Italian novelle
Marston’s 'The Malcontent' and Guarinian tragicomedy
'Othello', Cinthio and 'Orlando furioso'
Conclusion - Seventeenth-century language learning
Appendix: John Wolfe’s Italian publications
Bibliography
