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23) The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative: conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
24) Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama: comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage
Author
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. Anthony Ellis provides an in-depth study of the comic old man in the erudite comedy of sixteenth-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, including the commedia...