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The re-imagined text : Shakespeare, adaptation, & eighteenth-century literary theory
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Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the mo...
Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history -- the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays.Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's ""audacious"" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which
Details
- Creator
- Jean I. Marsden
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1995
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0813161436, 0813119014, 1322601135, 9780813161433, 0813130719, 9780813130712, 9780813119014
- OCLC
- ocn623750742, ocn903966342, ocn900345066
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-186) and index.
- English
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Re-Imagined Text; 1 Radical Adaptation; 2 The Beginnings of Shakespeare Criticism; Part II: Refined from the Dross; 3 Adaptation in Decline; 4 Criticism at Mid-Century; 5 The Search for a Genuine Text; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Subjects
- English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- English drama -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
- Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Literary form -- History -- 18th century.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations.