The essays focuses on the refashioning of Italian tragic modes in 'Titus Andronicus'. It examines how Shakespeare appropriates the practice of declaring and then outdoing a source in Italian sixteenth-century tragedy, with special reference to his variations on 'decorum', and 'scelus novum'.
Shakespearean Outdoings: 'Titus Andronicus' and Italian Renaissance Tragedy
TEMPERA, Mariangela
2011
Abstract
The essays focuses on the refashioning of Italian tragic modes in 'Titus Andronicus'. It examines how Shakespeare appropriates the practice of declaring and then outdoing a source in Italian sixteenth-century tragedy, with special reference to his variations on 'decorum', and 'scelus novum'.File in questo prodotto:
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