Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?? Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2006.
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Mie new London Companions for Italianand 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; Appendix: John Wolfe's Italian publications; Bibliography; Index.
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. The widespread use of bilingual parallel-text instruction manuals from the 1570s onwards, most notably those of the Italian tea.
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Imitation in literature. Italian language--England. Italian language--Study and teaching--History.--England Italian language--Study and teaching--History.--England Imitation in literature.