03744nam 2200673Ia 450 991081434990332120200520144314.00-7914-8773-31-4175-2399-9(CKB)1000000000238629(OCoLC)61367668(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587087(SSID)ssj0000129267(PQKBManifestationID)11936984(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129267(PQKBWorkID)10078643(PQKB)10462494(MiAaPQ)EBC3407889(OCoLC)55896125(MdBmJHUP)muse5935(Au-PeEL)EBL3407889(CaPaEBR)ebr10587087(DE-B1597)683030(DE-B1597)9780791487730(EXLCZ)99100000000023862920020220d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConstructing a world Shakespeare's England and the new historical fiction /Martha Tuck Rozett1st ed.Albany SUNY Press20031 online resource (217 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5551-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Of Narrators; or How the Teller Tells the Tale -- Historical Novelists at Work -- Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama -- Fictional Queen Elizabeths and Women-Centered Historical Fiction -- Rewriting Shakespeare -- Teaching Shakespeare’s England through Historical Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexTaking 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, Marlowe, Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and their contemporaries have been depicted by such writers as Anthony Burgess, George Garrett, Patricia Finney, Barry Unsworth, and Rosalind Miles. Innovative historical novels written during the past two or three decades have transformed the genre, producing some extraordinary bestsellers as well as less widely read serious fiction. Shakespearean scholar Martha Tuck Rozett engages in an ongoing conversation about the genre of historical fiction, drawing attention to the metacommentary contained in "Afterwords" or "Historical Notes"; the imaginative reconstruction of the diction and mentality of the past; the way Shakespearean phrases, names, and themes are appropriated; and the counterfactual scenarios writers invent as they reinvent the past.Historical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHistorical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismGreat BritainHistoryElizabeth, 1558-1603HistoriographyEnglandIn literatureHistorical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Historical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.823/.0810903Rozett Martha Tuck1946-1627161MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814349903321Constructing a world3963598UNINA