Author: Robert Witbeck Babcock
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Witbeck Babcock
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Jean I. Marsden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185556
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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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 playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused—a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.

Author: Robert Witbeck Babcock
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Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Martin Buzacott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136120688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.

Author: Irvin Leigh Matus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Virtuoso presentation of available evidence of the Bard's life. "Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays." — Publishers Weekly.

Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000519384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3794

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This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection examines Shakespeare’s work from a number of different perspectives, looking at history, language, performance and more it includes references to many of his plays as well as his sonnets.

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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: J. Leerssen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137412143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.