1. Introduction : intertextualizing Shakespeare's text / Michele Marrapodi
2. Seven types of intertextuality / Robert S. Miola
3. English bodies in Italian habits / Keir Elam
4. Shakespeare and Plutarch : intertextuality in action / Alessandro Serpieri
5. 'Voila la belle mort' : the crisis of the aristocracy in Troilus and Cressida / Mario Domenichelli
6. Beyond the reformation : Italian intertexts of the ransom plot in Measure for measure / Michele Marrapodi
7. 'The story is extant, and writ in very choice Italian' : Shakespeare's dramatizations of Cinthio / Jason Lawrence
8. Intertextual transformations : the novella as mediator between Italian and English Renaissance drama / Charlotte Pressler
9. Shakespeare's Italian intertexts : The taming of the/a Shrew / Fernando Cioni
10. 'What news on the Rialto' : luxury, sodomy, and miscegenation in The merchant of Venice / Anthony G. Barthelemy
11. Othello italicized : xenophobia and the erosion of tragedy / Pamela Allen Brown
12. politics of plot : Measure for measure and the Italianate disguised duke play / Michael J. Redmond
13. 'The three-fold world divided' : Julius Caesar in the light of Theologia Platonica / Claudia Corti
14. Cleopatra's barge and Antony's body : Italian sources and English theatre / J. R. Mulryne
15. Intertextuality and the chess motif : Shakespeare, Middleton, Greenway / Jeffrey A. Netto
16. 'Rare Italian master(s)' : Roman art in Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale / Francois Laroque
17. Shakespeare in the bottega : art works, apocrypha, and the stage / Giorgio Melchiori
18. Afterword : Italy as intertext / Keir Elam.
