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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459588903321

Autore

Marsden Jean I.

Titolo

The re-imagined text : Shakespeare, adaptation, & eighteenth-century literary theory / / Jean I. Marsden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8131-3071-9

0-8131-6143-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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