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Constructing a world : Shakespeare's England and the new historical fiction /

"Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre's defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rozett, Martha Tuck, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : SUNY Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: historical fiction old and new
  • Of narrators; or How the teller tells the tale
  • Historical novelists at work: George Garrett and Anthony Burgess
  • Barry Unsworth's Morality play and the origins of English secular drama
  • Fictional Queen Elizabeths and women-centered historical fiction
  • Rewriting Shakespeare: the Henriad with and without Falstaff
  • Teaching Shakespeare's England through historical fiction.