English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence
- Author / Editor
- Kirkpatrick, Robin.
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.