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

• Autore: Marsden Jean I.
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1995; ©1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.3/3
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The re-imagined text
• ISBN: 0-8131-3071-9; 0-8131-6143-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787481203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II