Who the devil taught thee so much Italian? : Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England
"This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It is the first study to suggest that there is a fundamental connection between these language-learning habits and the techniques for both reading and imitating Italian materials employed by a range of poets and dramatists, such as Daniel, Drummond, Marston and Shakespeare, in the same period."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2005
History
224 pages ; 23 cm
9780719069147, 9781847794390, 0719069149, 1847794394
61757270
1. 'Mie new London companions for Italian and French' : modern language learning in Elizabethan England
2. 'A stranger borne / to be indenized with us, and made our owne' : Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms
3. 'Give me the ocular proof' : Shakespeare's Italian language-learning habits
Conclusion : seventeenth-century language learning
App. John Wolfe's Italian publications
Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.--University of Oxford, 2000) presented under the title: The siren songs of Italie : Italian literary forms in Elizabethan and Jacobean England