- Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Early Modern English drama, Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance drama, Julius Caesar, and 27 moreThomas Kyd, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Digital Libraries, Shakespeare, Open Source Software, Audience and Reception Studies, Seneca, Lucan, William Alexander, Plutarch, Fulke Greville, Closet drama, Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Early Modern Political Thought, Shakespearean Drama, 17th Century British (Literature), 16th Century British (Literature), Early Modern Studies, Catiline, Catilina, Classical Reception Studies, Reception of Antiquity, Late Roman Republic, and Caesar (Classics)edit
- DOMENICO LOVASCIO is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, and he is a Fellow of the ... moreDOMENICO LOVASCIO is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He is the author of John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics for the Revels Plays Companion Library and the editor of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One for the Revels Plays.
He is the Italian advisor to the Oxford edition of The Complete Works of John Marston, a member of the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare, and a contributing editor to the forthcoming Collected Works of Thomas Kyd and Collected Plays of Robert Greene.
He also edited the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and a special issue of Shakespeare on ‘Shakespeare: Visions of Rome’.
In 2020 he received the Ben Jonson Discoveries Award for outstanding contribution to The Ben Jonson Journal.
His critical edition of Thierry and Theodoret by Fletcher, Massinger, and Field is forthcoming in the Revels Plays.edit
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This article proposes a new identification for the lost play Telomo, performed at court by Leicester’s Men in 1583. Challenging previous hypotheses that the play might have been either about a character named Ptolemy or about one of the... more
This article proposes a new identification for the lost play Telomo, performed at court by Leicester’s Men in 1583. Challenging previous hypotheses that the play might have been either about a character named Ptolemy or about one of the main character’s friends from the Spanish romance Palmerin d’Oliva, this article suggests that the play may have dramatized either episodes involving Ajax Telamonius or his father or, as appears more likely, the episode of ‘The Vnkindly Loue of Telamon to Castibula His Frends Wife’ from Brian Melbancke’s euphuistic romance Philotimus. The Warre betwixt Nature and Fortune (1583).
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The essay aims to offer a thorough analysis of the influence exerted by Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi on William Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew through George Gascoigne's translation, Supposes, and to underscore how crucial a... more
The essay aims to offer a thorough analysis of the influence exerted by Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi on William Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew through George Gascoigne's translation, Supposes, and to underscore how crucial a painstaking study of sources can prove to the understanding, in a historical perspective, of the depth and complexity of Shakespeare's theatre. First, the article briefly introduces the Italian commedia erudita and I Suppositi, and examines the changes to the source text made in translation by Gascoigne. Then, a survey is provided of some of the most important critical stances on the topic. Finally, an analysis of the various elements which Shakespeare borrowed from his source (characters, plot, verbal echoes) shows how he refashioned them in order to expand their dramatic potential as well as to make his comedy an apt ground for reflection on ethical themes of great topicality in Elizabethan society.
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The last opus in Ashgate's collection on Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies (dir. Michele Marrapodi), Selene Scarsi's monograph on Translating Women in Early Modern England, is a successful double endeavour: it reveals... more
The last opus in Ashgate's collection on Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies (dir. Michele Marrapodi), Selene Scarsi's monograph on Translating Women in Early Modern England, is a successful double endeavour: it reveals deliberate early modern male misreading and ...