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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rozett, Martha Tuck, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : SUNY Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603 > In literature.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > In literature.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Adaptations.
Elizabeth > I, > Queen of England, > 1533-1603.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
1558-1999
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
Literature and history > English-speaking countries.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Anglophonie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction.
English fiction.
Historical fiction, American.
Historical fiction, English.
Historiography.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603 > Historiography.
England > In literature.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1558-1603 (Élisabeth Ire) > Historiographie.
Angleterre > Dans la littérature.
England.
English-speaking countries.
Great Britain.
Adaptations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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