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Shakespeare's Shrews Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman's Debate

Aus der Reihe Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.05.2026

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Taylor and Francis

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22.9/15.2 cm

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630 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-03-268885-5

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.05.2026

Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster, schwarz-weiss

Verlag

Taylor and Francis

Seitenzahl

326

Maße (L/B)

22.9/15.2 cm

Gewicht

630 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-03-268885-5

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Libri GmbH
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  • Produktbild: Shakespeare's Shrews

  • Contents

    Foreword by Rocco Coronato

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction. "There's a double tongue; there's two tongues"

    Chapter 1 - "A wonderfull thing to hear": paradoxes and the woman's question as early modern literary traditions

    1.1 - Paradoxical argumentation and its fortune in early modern England and Italy

    The classical tradition of paradoxical rhetoric

    Universities, Inns of Court, and Italian humanists

    The early modern paradox: the mock encomium as an epistemological tool

    Between Italy, France and England: the case of Ortensio Lando's Paradossi

    A paradoxical development: the mock encomium and the argumentum contra opinionem omnium

    1.2 - The woman's question and its paradoxical portrayal of the female sex

    Literary antecedents and foundational texts of the woman's question

    The woman's question in early modern Italy: Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella

    The woman's question in early modern England: the Swetnam controversy

    1.3 - The paradox of the talkative woman in early modern Italy and England

    Italian talkativeness: from the Roman slave to the masks of the commedia dell'arte

    English talkativeness: folktale shrews and Shakespeare's Kate

    The Italian cortigiana and the English shrew: a comparison

    Chapter 2 - The role of Italian mediators in the English debate on women and paradoxical literary tradition

    2.1 - Of women and agency in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Harington's translation

    Female infidelity and homosocial relations in Canto IV and Canto XXVIII

    Translating misogyny: omissions, additions, and alterations

    2.2 - Witty women at the court of Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano

    An Italian turned English: Thomas Hoby's The Book of the Courtier

    A necessary presence: the ordering role of women in Castiglione's Il Cortegiano and Thomas Hoby's The Courtier

    2.3 - Ercole and Torquato Tasso's Dell'ammogliarsi, Robert Tofte's translation, and the "Bishops' Ban"

    "Fained battles, fought in iest": paradoxical misogyny in Tofte's translation

    Misogynistic anecdotes and the Queen's praise in Torquato's defense

    Chapter 3 - "So sweet was ne'er so fatal": the woman's question and paradoxes in Shakespeare's shrews

    3.1 - The Taming of the Shrew: a shrew-taming narrative in paradoxical terms

    The pamphlet literature and the competing representations of the shrew

    Petruchio's pars destruens: coercion and resistance through paradoxes

    Petruchio's pars construens: the case of Kate's new identity

    "My tongue will tell the anger of my heart"

    3.2 - Something new, something old: the use of paradoxes and the woman's question in Much Ado About Nothing

    Idealised partners in Shakespeare's Messina

    "Thou thinkest I am in sport": love talks and logical paradoxes

    The church scene and the shift in the use of paradoxes

    "Guarded with fragments"

    3.3 - "My lord is not my lord": paradoxes as figures of the soul in Othello

    The stage misogynist and the effects of slander

    "It is their husbands' faults": Emilia's defence of women

    Iago's poison: paradoxes as cyphers of tragedy and power imbalances

    "A word or two before you go"

    Conclusion - Figures of thought and thematical dispersion

    Opposite developments: the relationship between the woman's question and paradoxes

    The variable of gender in the form and function of paradoxes

    The shrew's éndoxa, women writers, and the resolution of the paradox

    Index