Shakespeares Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Womans Debate [Hardcover]

Contents

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Foreword by Rocco Coronato

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction. Theres a double tongue; theres two tongues

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Chapter 1  A wonderfull thing to hear: paradoxes and the womans question as early modern literary traditions

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1.1  Paradoxical argumentation and its fortune in early modern England and Italy

The classical tradition of paradoxical rhetoric

Universities, Inns of Court, and Italian humanists

The early modern paradox: the mock encomium as an epistemological tool

Between Italy, France and England: the case of Ortensio Landos Paradossi

A paradoxical development: the mock encomium and the argumentum contra opinionem omnium

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1.2  The womans question and its paradoxical portrayal of the female sex

Literary antecedents and foundational texts of the womans question

The womans question in early modern Italy: Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella

The womans question in early modern England: the Swetnam controversy

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1.3  The paradox of the talkative woman in early modern Italy and England

Italian talkativeness: from the Roman slave to the masks of the commedia dellarte

English talkativeness: folktale shrews and Shakespeares Kate

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