Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
The Witch and The Possessed Girl by Antonfrancesco Grazzini
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 978-1-032-74908-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Antonfrancesco Grazzini’s plays, La Spiritata (The Possessed Girl) and La Strega (The Witch), are available in English for the first time, with notes and an "Introduction". These plays deal with witchcraft, superstition, sexuality, and abortion. The context for such themes is analyzed in the "Introduction". Grazzini enhanced literary drama with elements from popular performances. He influenced other playwrights, including in England, where The Possessed Girl was adapted as the Elizabethan comedy, The Bugbears. Writer and linguist John Florio used Grazzini’s plays in his lexicon of Italian for English learners. Grazzini celebrated artistic and popular traditions of Renaissance Florence; he is significant for writing and preserving many literary genres, especially the burlesque and carnivalesque. He participated in Florentine spectacle and theater, as a writer of plays, a composer of interludes, and a chronicler of festive events. His importance to the development of the Italian language is evident in his plays.
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1. Grazzini’s Literary Background
2. Grazzini and Comic Theory
3. Grazzini and Comic Practice
4. “Boy eternal” and a Taxonomy of Children’s Games
5. Witchcraft and the Female Body
6. Comic Catharsis or Tragic Purge?
2. The Possessed Girl (La Spiritata)
3. The Witch (La Strega)
4. Appendix: Two Carnival Songs
5. Bibliography
6. Index