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Title: Italian Renaissance Tales
Author: MORTIMER ANTHONY (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/11/2019
Imprint: OXFORD UNI PRESS
Price: $24.95
Publishing status: Active
‘Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.’For over two centuries after Boccaccio’s groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble
peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats.The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the
novel
Series: Oxford World’s Classics
ISBN: 9780198794967
Weight: 268g
Dimension: 196mm X 128mm
Pages: 384