Renaissance Theatergrams: from Italy to England

Collecting a selection of Louise George Clubb’s essays on sixteenth-century European literature alongside some of her contributions on Renaissance genres and the influence of Italian culture on English drama, this volume inaugurates the AIRSR series, masterfully illustrating Clubb’s insightful understanding of Shakespeare’s theatre and that of his contemporaries. By famously drawing a rich “system of seminal theatergrams” and offering innovative approaches to intertextual enquiry, these studies discuss the subtle thematic affinities and significant variations that characterised the development of different kinds of drama in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance tradition. The volume is perceptively introduced by Robert Henke.

Louise George Clubb is Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at Berkeley. A former Chair of the Department of Italian and Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science, she is a leading expert on Italian Renaissance theater and literary relations between Italy and England during the Renaissance.