English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence

Author / Editor
Kirkpatrick, Robin.

Title
English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence

Published
New York: Longman, 1995.

Physical Description
ix, 328 pp.

Description
Surveys the sustained influence of Italian culture in England from Chaucer through Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Gascoigne, Marston, Fletcher, and Shakespeare. Summarizes the development of Italian city-states and explores topics such as Italian influence on English education, humanism, and literary genres and modes: epic, comedy, novella, and pastoral. Individual chapters examine Italian influence on Chaucer and on Shakespeare, including the influence of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on HF, CT, and TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
House of Fame.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Canterbury Tales--General.