LEADER 03744nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910814349903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8773-3 010 $a1-4175-2399-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000238629 035 $a(OCoLC)61367668 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587087 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129267 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11936984 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129267 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10078643 035 $a(PQKB)10462494 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407889 035 $a(OCoLC)55896125 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5935 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587087 035 $a(DE-B1597)683030 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791487730 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000238629 100 $a20020220d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstructing a world $eShakespeare's England and the new historical fiction /$fMartha Tuck Rozett 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cSUNY Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5551-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tOf Narrators; or How the Teller Tells the Tale -- $tHistorical Novelists at Work -- $tBarry Unsworth?s Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama -- $tFictional Queen Elizabeths and Women-Centered Historical Fiction -- $tRewriting Shakespeare -- $tTeaching Shakespeare?s England through Historical Fiction -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aTaking 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. 606 $aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHistorical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yElizabeth, 1558-1603$xHistoriography 607 $aEngland$xIn literature 615 0$aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHistorical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.0810903 700 $aRozett$b Martha Tuck$f1946-$01627161 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814349903321 996 $aConstructing a world$93963598 997 $aUNINA