Reviews for Lelia's Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy

The average rating for Lelia's Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-14 00:00:00 Brad Keiller Laura Giannetti Provides many surprising and delightful insights in this readable, well crafted and meticulously researched history of Renaissance theatre, and the major role played therein by women throughout the 15th and 16th century Italy and much of Europe. This feminine theatre Renaissance excludes, ironically, Queen Elizabeth's England, in which women were banned from the stage. Moreover, Professor Giannetti adds to the feminist history of the times by describing the many Renaissance plays by, and about, strong female characters that reflected far more flexible gender roles in popular Renaissance culture than we of the 21st century have commonly believed.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-07 00:00:00 William H. Brooks Not sure about scietific accuracy of this work, I guess you have to be a literature scientist yourself and spend a lot of time in the libraries carefully examining all the facts compiled in this book, but if you take this work as a let's say half-fiction, letting it entertain you - it will tell you a thriller story indeed. Spoilers here would be deadly, but basically this book is one of those stories (and perhaps one of the best in its genre) about that Stattford guy not being an author of all those great plays and sonets.