Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

305 Pages·2005·8.929 MB·English

by  Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels

Renaissance Go-Betweens
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Renaissance Go-Betweens
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Edited by
Andreas Höfele · Werner von Koppenfels
Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
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1. English literature — European influences. 2. English literature
— Early modern, 1500—1700 — History and criticism. 3. European
literature — Renaissance, 1450—1600 — Appreciation — Great Britain.
4. Translating and interpreting — Great Britain — History — 16th
century. 5. Literature, Comparative — English and European.
6. Literature, Comparative — European and English. 7. Great Brit-
ain — Relations — Europe. 8. Europe — Relations — Great Britain.
9. Renaissance — England. I. Höfele, Andreas, 1950— II. Kop-
penfels, Werner von. III. Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 2.
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Table of Contents
1. ANDREAS HÖFELE / WERNER VON KOPPENFELS :
Introduction 1
I. Mediators
2. PETER BURKE:
The Renaissance Translator as Go-Between 17
3. MANFRED PFISTER:
Inglese Italianato - Italiano Anglizzato: John Florio 32
4. WERNER VON KOPPENFELS:
Ash Wednesday in Westminster: Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan
England 55
5. PAUL FRANSSEN:
De Witt, van Buchell, the Wooden O, and the Yellow Μ 78
6. GYORGYE. SZONYI :
John Dee as Cultural, Scientific, Apocalyptic Go-Between 88
7. SONIA MASSAI :
John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern
Print Culture 104
VIII Table of Contents
II. Mediations
8. CARLO GINZBURG:
Hybrids: Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) 121
9. HERBERT GRABES:
British Cultural History and Church History for the Continent: John
Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) 139
10. JOHN ROE:
Machiavellian Dissimulation and Allegory: The Writings of Roger
Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney 152
11. JAN ASSMANN:
Moses as Go-Between: John Spencer's Theory of Religious Translation.... 163
III. Representations
12. RICHARD WILSON:
Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between 177
13. ALEIDA ASSMANN:
Spirits, Ghosts, Demons in Shakespeare and Milton 200
14. ALEXANDER LEGGATT:
Ά membrane has broken': Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tra-
gedy 214
Table of Contents IX
15. FRANCOIS LAROQUE:
'The Words of Mercury': Shakespeare's Love Ambassadors 231
16. PHILIPPA BERRY:
Incising Venice: the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant
of Venice 248
17. CATHERINE BELSEY:
Iago the Essayist: Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare 262
Index 279
Notes on Contributors 287