Description
| Product ID: | 9781649590855 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series |
| Title: | Letters |
| Authors: | Author: Isabella Andreini, Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongiat Farina, Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongiat Farina |
| Page Count: | 331 |
| Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Individual actors and performers, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: general, Individual actors & performers, Diaries, letters & journals, Literary studies: general, Italian, c 1500 to c 1600 |
| Description: | A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella Andreini (1562–1604) was a commedia dell’arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi. Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a “hermaphroditic” alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreini’s modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection centers on love and examines—from surprising perspectives—pertinent issues such as death, the birth of a girl, prostitution, patriarchal marital practices, love in old age, courtiership, country and city life, human nature, and defenses and critiques of both sexes. |
| Imprint Name: | Iter Press |
| Publisher Name: | Iter Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-21 |