The Re-Imagined Text : Shakespeare, Adaptation, and 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Marsden, Jean I. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Adaptations.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation > History > 18th century.
Theater.
Literary form.
English drama > Adaptations.
Criticism.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Genres litteraires > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Theâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Critique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English drama > Adaptations > History and criticism.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Adaptations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813161433

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