Who the Devil Taught Thee So Much Italian?: Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England
Who the Devil Taught Thee So Much Italian?: Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England by Jason Lawrence
English, Italian | 2006| ISBN: 0719069149, 0719069157 | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
English, Italian | 2006| ISBN: 0719069149, 0719069157 | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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.