Examines in a different light the innovative and influential scripted comedies of the Italian Renaissance.

This volume offers newly-translated texts of three established classics of Italian Renaissance comedy, with scholarly introductions and bibliographies for each.

Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities, this book analyses plays in the genre of 'erudite comedy' (commedia erudita), which was extremely popular ...

This volume presents English translations of three Italian Renaissance comedies not readily available to the English-speaking reader and director: Ariosto's Lena; Ruzante's ...