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The re-imagined text : Shakespeare, adaptation, & eighteenth-century literary theory /
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 pl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 playwri |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813161433 0813161436 0813130719 9780813130712 |