Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic [book cover only uploaded] (original) (raw)

2018, Modern Language Association Options for Teaching series

The Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingian epic and Arthurian chivalric romance, was a form popular with courtly and urban audiences. In the hands of writers such as Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, works of remarkable sophistication that combined high seriousness and low comedy were created. Their works went on to influence Cervantes, Milton, Ronsard, Shakespeare, and Spenser. In this volume instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theater, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works. Essays by Marco Dorigatti, Joshua Reid, Leslie Zarker Morgan, Maria Bendinelli Predelli, Giovanna Rizzarelli, Gael Montgomery, Chris Picicci, Evelyn Birge Vitz, Walter Stephens, Janet Levarie Smarr, Susan Gaylard, Bernd Renner, Bryan Brazeau, Stephen P. McCormick, Karina F. Attar, Allison DeWitt, Andrea Moudarres, Stefano Gulizia, Julia L. Hairston, John C. McLucas, Julia M. Kisacky, Maria Galli Stampino, Charles S. Ross, Phillip John Usher, Patricia E. Grieve, Morten Steen Hansen, Grant Herreid, Barbara Russano Hanning, Roberto Puggioni, Stefano Nicosia, and Andrea Privitera. https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-the-Italian-Renaissance-Romance-Epic. N.B. The pdf is of the cover only.