Shakespeare's Italy Book

	List of editors and contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Shakespeare's Italians	17
2	Italy staged in English Renaissance drama	30
3	Italian vices: cross-cultural constructions of temptation and desire in English Renaissance drama	49
4	The fictional world of Romeo and Juliet: cultural connotations of an Italian setting	69
5	History and myth in The Merchant of Venice	87
6	'In fair Verona': commedia erudita into romantic comedy	100
7	Duelling in the Italian manner: the case of Romeo and Juliet	112
8	Merchants and madcaps: Dekker's Honest Whore plays and the commedia dell'arte	125
9	The Veneto, metatheatre and Shakespeare	143
10	Streets, squares and courts: Venice as a stage in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson	158
11	The idea of Venice in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson	171
12	Dobbin on the Rialto: Venice and the division of identity	185
13	'Of that fatal country': Sicily and the rhetoric of topography in The Winter's Tale	213
14	The rhetoric of poison in John Webster's Italianate plays	229
15	'The soil alters; Y'are in another country': multiple perspectives and political resonances in Middleton's Women Beware Women	251
16	'Under the dent of the English pen': the language of Italy in English Renaissance drama	272
17	Shakespeare and Italy, or, the law of diminishing returns	295
	Bibliography	305
	Index	317