Innehåller bibliografiska referenser och index.

Introduction / Silvia Bigliazzi -- Part I. Memories. Memory, intertextuality/interdiscursivity and reuse / Savina Stevanato -- Whose memory? From the "Rossignuol" to female communities in Groto and Shakespeare / Silvia Bigliazzi -- Part II. Memory and reuse. Welcome to Padua: female characters, narrative sources, and the commedia dell'arte in The two gentlemen of Verona / Melissa Walter -- The source as a resonant halo: Italian neoplatonism in Twelfth night / Rocco Coronato -- Bandello's novellas and The merry wives of Windsor / Roberta Zanoni -- "Ed ebbono bene e buona ventura:" multi-layered echoes of Il Pecorone in The merchant of Venice / Alessandra Squeo -- Boccaccio's Bernabò, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, and other resources: a keyword and co-textual analysis / Fabio Ciambella -- Part III. Reuse and memory. "What country, friends, is this?": displaced identity and homoerotic desire in Twelfth night and its Italian models / Jason Lawrence -- "The story that is printed in her blood": patriarchal authority in Much ado about nothing and its sources / Emanuel Stelzer -- "Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak": female agency from Cinthio to Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Cristiano Ragni -- Reviving past "models": Dolce's Marianna and the intricacies of Othello's Crux / Beatrice Righetti -- "As I please myself." recollections and reconfigurations of female agency in Ariosto's Suppositi, Gascoigne's Supposes and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew / Silvia Silvestri -- The ring is the thing: All's well that ends well and its mobile circuitry / Eric Nicholson -- Afterword / Robert Henke.

"The book is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, Pasqualigo, Groto, as well as on commedia dell'arte practices. It discusses hitherto unexamined materials and revises received interpretations, disclosing the relevance of memorial processes within the broad field of intertextuality vis-à-vis conscious reuses and intentional practices"-- Provided by publisher