Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance

List of Plates - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: PERFORMANCE AND PLAYING PLACES OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE - The Changing Scene: Plays and Playhouses in the Italian Renaissance; M.Anderson - Scripted Theatre and the Commedia dell'Arte; R.Andrews - The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyons in the 1540s; J.Bryce - PART 2: THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CONNECTION: BEN JONSON - Ben Jonson's Masques and Italian Culture; J.Peacock - Jonson's Venice; R.B.Parker - Aretino's Comedies and the Italian 'Erasmian' Connection in Shakespeare and Jonson; C.Cairns - PART 3: THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CONNECTION: LYLY AND SHAKESPEARE - Parallels between Italian and English Courtly Plays in the Sixteenth Century: Carlo Turco and John Lyly; N.Messora - Courtier and Courtesy: Castiglione, Lyly and Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona; M.C.Bradbrook - Shakespeare's Verismo and the Italian Popular Tradition; H.M.Richmond - Honest Iago and the Lusty Moor: the Humanistic Drama of honestas/voluptas in a Shakespearean Context; M.de Panizza Lorch - Postscript: Elizabethan Dramatists and Italy; L.Salingar - Further Reading - Index