Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama

Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.

Author: S. Loftis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/16/2013
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781137352538

About the Author
Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at Morehouse College.