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Author Walter, Melissa Emerson, 1967- author.
Title The Italian novella and Shakespeare's comic heroines / Melissa Emerson Walter.
Publisher Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Copyright date ©2019



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Contents Introduction: Enclosure, conversation, and spaces of authorship -- 1. Filomena's voice: female character and authority 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. "Are you a comedian?": 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: Italian and French novellas in England.
ISBN 9781487503642
9781487518424 (electronic bk.)
1487518420 (electronic bk.)
9781487518431 (electronic bk.)
1487518439 (electronic bk.)
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Author Walter, Melissa Emerson, 1967- author.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.
English literature -- Italian influences.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents Introduction: Enclosure, conversation, and spaces of authorship -- 1. Filomena's voice: female character and authority 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. "Are you a comedian?": 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: Italian and French novellas in England.
ISBN 9781487503642
9781487518424 (electronic bk.)
1487518420 (electronic bk.)
9781487518431 (electronic bk.)
1487518439 (electronic bk.)
Author Walter, Melissa Emerson, 1967- author.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.
English literature -- Italian influences.

Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.
English literature -- Italian influences.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents Introduction: Enclosure, conversation, and spaces of authorship -- 1. Filomena's voice: female character and authority 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. "Are you a comedian?": 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: Italian and French novellas in England.
ISBN 9781487503642
9781487518424 (electronic bk.)
1487518420 (electronic bk.)
9781487518431 (electronic bk.)
1487518439 (electronic bk.)

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