DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works.

Salvatore DiMaria is a professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee.

Michael Lettieri, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto:

“This study represents a serious advance in state-of-the-art research on Italian Renaissance theatre. Expanding on and enhancing the important and evolving scholarship in this field, it works out useful goals with considerable scholarly and intellectual rigour. The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance is also meticulously researched, articulate, and extremely well-presented.”

Eugenia Paulicelli, Department of Italian and Comparative Literature, Queens College, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York:

“In this book, Salvatore DiMaria provides a rich, compelling, and exhaustive study of Italian Renaissance theatre. A very useful and important source, it is an excellent addition to scholarship in the field and sure to become a fixed port of call for any scholar who endeavours to work in this area.”