The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

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 16

Author: Jean I. Marsden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780813156132

About the Author

Jean I. Marsden is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

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